It’s the second successive yr the occasion would be the official trial race for the half-marathon on the World Athletics Street Operating Championships.
The prospect of incomes qualification for September’s World Athletics Street Operating Championships has attracted a top-class elite area for this yr’s GetPRO Tub Half Marathon, which incorporates defending champions Jake Smith and Abbie Donnelly, plus Olympians Phil Sesemann, Jess Warner-Judd and Alex Bell.
It’s the second successive yr the Tub Half, which takes place on March 15, has been named the host of the official British Athletics trial race for the half marathon occasion on the World Athletics Street Operating Championships.
Smith and Donnelly topped the rostrum final yr with spectacular wins: Smith – the fifth-fastest British half-marathoner in historical past – ran the quickest ever time by a British athlete on the Tub course (62:20), whereas Donnelly’s profitable time of 69:54 was the second quickest by a British feminine within the occasion’s historical past.
Donnelly constructed on that efficiency by operating 2:24:11 on the Frankfurt Marathon final October, a time that places her seventh on the UK marathon all-time listing.
Sesemann, who represented Nice Britain within the marathon on the Paris Olympics, turned the fifth-fastest British man of all-time over the 26.2-mile distance when he clocked 2:07:10 in Valencia final December. He set a half-marathon private better of 61:22 when ending third on the Antrim Half Marathon final August.
Joe Wigfield who has had a formidable begin to 2026, can also be on the lads’s entry listing. He equalled Rory Leonard’s British 10km file of 27:38 in Valencia in January, earlier than returning to Spain for the Barcelona Half Marathon final month, the place he clocked 61:16. Alfie Manthorpe, who ran 61:26 in Valencia final October, can even run in Tub.
Donnelly is a part of a robust girls’s area that features Olympians Jess Warner-Judd and Alex Bell.
Warner-Judd is the fourth-fastest British lady within the half-marathon (67:06) and has competed in each the 5000m and 10,000m on the Olympics. She additionally completed seventh on the New York Metropolis Marathon final November on her debut over the gap.
Bell, an 800m finalist from the Tokyo Olympics, has flourished on the roads this yr, recording private bests within the 10km (30:57) and half-marathon (69:35) in Valencia and Dubai respectively.
The highest two male and prime two feminine finishers with the qualifying normal (61:30 for males and 69:30 for ladies) on the Tub Half Marathon will probably be chosen for the Nice Britain staff for half marathon at World Street Operating Championships in Copenhagen in September.
At the moment, Wigfield and Manthorpe have the qualifying normal within the males’s race. Nobody within the girls’s area has run the usual for the reason that qualifying interval started final September.
Lots of the athletes taking up the Tub Half are utilizing it as a tune-up for the London Marathon on April 26, together with Smith, Sesemann and Manthorpe within the males’s race and Donnelly and Warner-Judd within the girls’s occasion.
Elite girls’s area
Jessica Warner-Judd (67:06)Abbie Donnelly (69:05)Lily Partridge (69:34)Alex Bell (69:35)Lauren McNeil (69:38)Lucy Reid (70:29)Charlotte Taylor (70:38)Verity Hopkins (71:43)Annabel Gummow (72:26)Kate Estlea-Morris (72:27)Esme Davies (73:14)Rosie Hamilton-James (73:43)Molly Smith (75:49)Jade Morgan (Debut)Megan Gadsby (Debut)Elite males’s entry listing
Elite males’s area
Jake Smith (60:31)Ben Connor (60:55)Joe Wigfield (61:16)Phil Sesemann (61:22)Alfie Manthorpe (61:26)Ollie Lockley (63:01)Ben Alcock (63:09)Peter Le Grice (64:21)Edward Buck (64:23)Joshua Grace (64:27)Josh Hobbs (64:29)Robert Warner-Judd (64:37)Ryan Thomson (64:40)Christopher Thomas (64:43)Dominic Nolan (64:49)Cole Gibbens (65:00)David Bishop (65:15)
