Great North Run Draws 63,000 as PM Andy Burnham Finishes Half Marathon Under 2 Hours
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 13
Great North Run Draws 63,000 as PM Andy Burnham Finishes Half Marathon Under 2 Hours
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 13
Summary
63,000 runners took part in the 13.1-mile Great North Run on Tyneside, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham completing the race in under two hours for homelessness charity Changing Lives.
About £25 million is typically raised for charity each year through the event, now in its 45th year, as runners crossed from Newcastle through Gateshead and South Tyneside to South Shields.
Brigid Kosgei and Zouhair Talbi won the elite women's and men's races, while David Weir and Melanie Woods took the men's and women's elite wheelchair titles.
13,000 young people had already raced in Saturday's Mini and Junior events — the biggest in that event's 40-year history — while Sunday's run also brought road closures and traffic disruption near the Redheugh Bridge.