Charlotte Purdue, Jess Warner-Judd and Samantha Harrison additionally on account of run on September 7
Jack Rowe might be aiming to attract degree within the historical past books with Mo Farah by profitable The Huge Half, London’s premier half marathon, for a 3rd time on Sunday September 7.
Farah at present holds the document for the non-disabled male with the best variety of victories in The Huge Half, with the three wins he chalked up in 2018, 2019 and 2022. However a win for Rowe this yr will see him equal Farah’s feat and also will make him the primary athlete to win the occasion in three successive years.
David Weir, who additionally has a trio of The Huge Half victories to his title (2019, 2022 and 2023), leads the elite males’s wheelchair entries the place he might be up in opposition to defending champion JohnBoy Smith.
There’s a stacked area within the elite ladies’s race together with Charlotte Purdue who, like Weir and Farah, is a three-time champion of The Huge Half (2018, 2019, 2021), plus two of the quickest feminine British half marathoners of all time: Jess Warner-Judd and Samantha Harrison.
Warner-Judd, who has represented Britain at three World Championships and the 2021 Olympic Video games, is the fourth quickest Brit over the half marathon distance with a private greatest (PB) of 67:06, whereas Harrison – who completed ninth within the half marathon on the final World Athletics Highway Operating Championships in 2023 – has a PB of 67:08 that locations her fifth on the British all-time checklist.
For Warner-Judd, the race might be a warm-up for the 2025 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon, on November 2, the place she might be making her marathon debut.
Regardless of The Huge Half clashing with the Nice North Run this yr, the occasion has attracted good entries.
Different main names within the elite ladies’s race embody Rose Harvey and Clara Evans-Graham, who each competed within the marathon on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games for Nice Britain, and Abbie Donnelly, who was sixth over the half marathon distance finally yr’s European Championships and received this yr’s Bathtub Half Marathon.
Within the elite ladies’s wheelchair race, 2024 Boston Marathon champion Eden Rainbow-Cooper, who received The Huge Half in 2022, will face a powerful home area that features Jade Jones-Corridor, who was sixth at this yr’s TCS London Marathon.
The elite races are a part of The Huge Half group operating competition which has 25,000 individuals registered to participate throughout three mass participation occasions: The Huge Half, the UK’s most numerous half marathon, The New Stability Huge Relay, which permits groups to sort out the half marathon distance and The Huge Mile for kids and households.
2025 The Huge Half elite fields (all GBR)
Elite males’s entries
Jack Rowe (Aldershot, Farnham & District AC, PB 61:08)
Paulos Surafel (Thames Valley Harriers, PB 61:21)
Dewi Griffiths (Swansea Harriers AC, PB 61:33)
Adam Clarke (Aldershot, Farnham & District AC, PB 61:54)
Mohamud Aadan (Thames Valley Harriers, PB 62:28)
Ollie Lockley (Leeds Metropolis, PB 63:01)
Weynay Ghebresilasie (Shettleston, PB 63:39)
Jonathan Davies (Studying AC, PB 63:44)
Tewelde Menges (Medway & Maidstone, PB 63:49)
Alex Milne (Hercules Wimbledon, PB 64:51)
Cole Gibbens (Tonbridge AC, PB 65:00)
Jonathan Cornish (Hercules Wimbledon, PB 65:05)
Elite ladies’s entries
Jessica Warner-Judd (Blackburn, PB 67:06)
Samantha Harrison (Mansfield, PB 67:08)
Charlotte Purdue (Aldershot, Farnham & District AC, PB 68:02)
Clara Evans-Graham (Pontypridd, PB 69:00)
Abbie Donnelly (Lincoln Wellington, PB 69:05)
Rose Harvey (Clapham Chasers, PB 70:02)
Tessa McCormick (Vale Royal, PB 72:13)
Heather Townsend (Leeds Metropolis, PB 73:21)
Elite males’s wheelchair entries
David Weir
Johnboy Smith
Michael McCabe
Josh Hickinbottom
Xander Foster
Sam Kolek
Liam Coffill
Elite ladies’s wheelchair entries
Claudia Burrough
Jade Jones-Corridor
Joanna Robertson
Eden Rainbow-Cooper
Lauren Rowles
Rosie Delap
Shanua Bocquet
