Sunderland City Runs enjoys 15th anniversary event

Weekly round-up contains information from the North East of England, plus the Chester and Hackney half-marathon.

SUNDERLAND CITY RUNS 10km, Tyne & Put on, Could 17

Sunderland celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its metropolis runs in model as greater than 5000 runners accomplished races within the 2026 SG Petch Sunderland Metropolis Runs on Saturday and Sunday.

The motion began on Saturday night with the brand new SG Petch Sunderland Metropolis Runs 5km, when greater than 500 runners adopted a route that took them over the brand new Keel Crossing footbridge, across the Stadium of Gentle and previous Sheepfolds Stables, which was the venue for a busy official after get together.

A detailed males’s race was received by Andrew Swinburne of Morpeth Harriers in quarter-hour and 22 seconds, lower than half a second forward of Aaron Bark of North Shields Poly (15:23), with Scott Capewell in third (15:46).

Sunderland Metropolis Runs

Grace Carroll of Sunderland Harriers received the ladies’s race in 18:03, forward of clubmate Amy Callaghan (19:09) and Evie Kleiser of Durham Harriers (19:18). Race founder Steve Cram additionally took half, one of many WEAR 15 people who had been celebrated over the weekend for his or her position within the improvement and development of the SG Petch Sunderland Metropolis Runs.

The motion on Sunday started with the Energetic Sunderland BIG 3km, when over 700 largely junior athletes took over the centre of Sunderland. Virtually 2700 members then accomplished the fifteenth anniversary version of the Sunderland Metropolis 10km.

Winner of the lads’s race was Lee Davies of North East Mission in 30:51, adopted by Alex Brown of Houghton Harriers (31:07) and Lewis Gamble- Thompson of New Marske Harriers (31:40). The ladies’s race was received by Polly Moreland of Alnwick Harriers in 37:06, with Jennifer Berry of Wallsend AC second (37:21) and Alex Sneddon of Jarrow and Hebburn in third (37:26).

After profitable the 10km, Lee Davies was offered with the brand new Kevin Carr Memorial Trophy, in reminiscence of Kevin Carr, a legend of grass roots athletics in Sunderland and the broader North East, who handed away earlier this yr.

Over 1300 individuals accomplished the 2026 Sunderland Metropolis Half Marathon and the winner of the lads’s race was Conrad Franks of Gateshead Harriers in 73:04, adopted by Jordan Wilson of Stockton Striders (74:35) and Matthew Woodhouse (76:49). Olympian Aly Dixon of Sunderland Strollers, a number of Sunderland Metropolis Runs winner and one other WEAR 15 particular person, received the ladies’s half marathon in 82:33. Charlotte Redhead of Heaton Harriers was second (83:52) and Joanna McNeill of Saltwell Harriers was third (86:29).

Race founder and director Cram stated: “It was a really particular weekend of operating in Sunderland, and a extremely becoming strategy to have fun 15 years of the occasion. I used to be in a position to expertise first- hand the good environment for our runners, and the brand new Keel Crossing was a terrific addition to the occasion, serving to us to showcase the implausible regeneration of town centre. The SG Petch Sunderland Metropolis Runs go from energy to energy, and for making that doable we’re grateful to Sunderland Metropolis Council, all of our companions and volunteers, and naturally the hundreds of runners who participate yearly.”

Half-marathon total: 1 C Franks (M40) 73:04

M50: 1 D Purvis 78:19

M60: 1 J Robust 86:00

Girls: 1 A Dixon (Sund Str, W40) 82:34

W50: 1 C McManus 94:37

W60: 1 J Murdy 88:13

10km total: 1 L Davies 30:53; 2 Brown 31:09

M40: 1 D Richardson 32:40

M50: 1 D Milligan 35:10

Girls: 1 P Moreland 37:08

W50: 1 W Chapman 40:09

5km total (Could 16): 1 A Swinburn (M40) 15:24

Notice: Steve Cram (J&H, M60) 21:11

Girls: 1 G Carroll 18:04

BARRY ISLAND 10km, South Wales, Could 17

Jon Butler received the race in 30:23 as Charlotte Taylor took the ladies’s part from fourth total in a private greatest 33:08.

Second total was former worldwide steeplechaser and triathlete Adam Bowden, now a veteran M40 in 32:12 however deeper within the discipline, former double London Marathon W55 age group winner and senior World Championship worldwide Angharad Mair, with 42:04.

The Les Croupier had not too long ago set a brand new W65 5-mile British better of 33:12

General: 1 J Butler (Swan) 30:23; 2 A Bowden (C’bridge, M40) 32;12

Girls: 1 C Taylor (B&W) 33:08; 2 O Stilman 36:27; 3 D Morris (Builth, W40) 36:33; 4 G Palmer (Les C) 36:36

W65: 1 A Mair (Les C) 42:04

BIG GREEN SCUNTHORPE 10km, Lincolnshire, Could 17

General: 1 E Stones (Massive Canine) 32:14

M50: 1 R Watkinson (Roth) 34:52

M70: 1 D Gibson 44:37

Girls: 1 L Skinner (Off Sofa) 35:01

W55: 1 H Morgan (Barns) 41:58

BOGNOR PROM 10km, West Sussex, Could 17

General: 1 Okay Taylor 30:17

M60: 1 M Howard (Price G) 38:16

Girls: 1 Okay Natkiel (Phoe) L Spencer (W40) 36:46

COMMONWEAL 5, Swindon, Wiltshire, Could 17

General: 1 B Cole (Swin, M40) 26:00

Girls: 1 E Spencer (Swin) 31:47

ESSAR CHESTER HALF-MARATHON, Cheshire, Could 17

Jack White, who received in 65:58 couldn’t fairly match his better of 65:54 set when profitable final yr’s Nice Jap Run when profitable right here over Luke Burgess, as Abbie Van Dijk took the ladies’s race in 78:12.

General: 1 J White (Norw) 65:58; 2 L Burgess (B&W) 66:11; 3 J Griffiths (Swan) 66:31; 4 D Rigby (B&W) 67:27; 5 J Moynihan (C&C) 67:49; 6 M Collins (Osw) 68:01; 7 A Baker (W Tempo, M40) 68:51; 8 T Roberts (Meirr’dd) 68:56; 9 C Sarsfield ()Helsby) 69:02; 10 M Younger (M A’deen) 69:56

M45: 1 Fisher (Macc) 70:32

M50: 1 M Inexperienced (Meirr’dd) 75:18

M55: 1 F Rafferty (S’port W) 76:40; 2 D McDonough (Kirkby) 77:34

M60: 1 R McGrath (N Masters) 82:03

M65: 1 T Rowlands (Maldwyn) 88:58

M70: 1 J James (P’land) 96:10

Girls: 1 A Van Dijk (R4U, W35) 78:12; 2 M Gibson (100 Mara, W40) 78:53

W45: 1 V Knight 81:48

W50: 1 V Scowcroft (N Masters) 91:52; 2 L Blizzard (Warr) 92:39

W55: 1 C Carter (New J) 87:34

W60: 1 L Heyes (R’backside) 1:41:50

HACKNEY HALF-MARATHON, London, Could 17

Sam Tyas was 5 seconds faster than his earlier greatest when profitable in 66:34, as Australian Ciara Boyd-Squires Lengthy took the ladies’s race in 74:54, a time a shade outdoors her private better of 74:19 set in Barcelona earlier this yr.

General: 1 S Tyas (Belg) 66:34; 2 C Bruchausen 67:09; 3 O Wray 67:29; 4 S Pal (L Entrance) 67:36; 5 B Felton (Chelm) 69:24; 6 M Kelly (W Tempo) 69:28; 7 M Elbayan (Lut) 69:29; 8 C Newnham (Ryde) 69:24; 9 J Evans (Lon H) 70:07; 10 A Hunt 70:27

Girls: 1 C Boyd-Squires Lengthy (VP&TH) 74:54; 2 T McCormick (Vale R) 74:58; 3 B Briggs 76:49; 4 Okay Brown 77:36; 5 C Pereboom 77:40; 6 I Padfield (W Tempo) 78:38; 7 R Boswell (THH) 79:13; 8 A Hettige 79:22; 9 E Gaffney (W35) 79:43; 10 S Brooke (Birm U) 79:57

W45: 1 J McMullen 81:05

W50: 1 H Could 86:13

W55: 1 N Stevens 85:24

HOOK 10, Hampshire, Could 17

General: 1 T Harding (BMH) 55:12

M60: 1 M Slaney (BMH) 64:48

Girls: 1 Okay Estlea0Morris (AFD) 58:09; 2 S Carter (THH) ^1:21

W50: 1 D Godwin (M’head) 65:37

KINTBURY 5, Berkshire, Could 17

General: 1 J Millar (B&W) 26:15

Girls: 1 L Robertson (Newb) 31:27

MAY 5, Poole, Dorset, Could 17

General: 1 J Peppin (B’mth, U20) 26:09

M50: 1 B Underwood (Poole) 27:54

Girls: 1 L Allison (Poole R) 29:29

ROTARY BADDOW 10, Nice Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, Could 17

General: 1 P Whittaker (LoS) 62:27; 2 C Allenby 55:52

Girls: 1 R Broome (S’discipline) 68:01

EMGP Blisworth 5, Northamptonshire, Could 15

General: 1 S Harman (Bucks & Stowe) 26;14

M55: 1 C Bell (North Tri) 28:30; 2 D Lockwood (Higham) 28:33

M70: 1 A Phillips (North RR) 35:38

TEAM: 1 Higham 1:49:55

M35 TEAM: 1R&N 1:54:23

Girls: 1 R Doherty (Higham, W35) 29:55

W45: 1 Z Kemp (Dav) 31:51; 2 Okay Godof (Olney) 32:09

W50: 1 H Heley (Silson) 32:29

W55: 1 R Cooke (Bucks & S) 30:31

W60: 1 Okay Bond (Dav) 38:22

TEAM: 1 Higham 1:40:36

W35 TEAM: 1 Higham 1:41:02

RUN EXE RELAYS, Exeter, Devon, Could 15

Males (4x4km): 1 Exeter College 47:42; 2 Bideford 50:43; 3 SWRR 50:59

Quickest: J McDonald 11:28; L Jones 11:40; C Hewitt 11:44

M40: 1 SWRR 53:57. Quickest: M Jenkin (M45) 12:44

M50: 1 SWRR 59:23. Quickest: E Pickering 13:27

Girls: 1 Exeter U 55:25; 2 Taunton 58:47; 3 Exeter U B 60:09

Quickest: J Leggate 12:59; S Livingstone 13:16; A Murray-Gourlay 13:33

W40: 1 SWRR 53:14. Quickest: V Hill (W45) 14:36

FNUL BARROWFORD 5km, Nelson, Lancashire, Could 15

Salford’s Harry Johnson, who had run 13:47 in March’s Podium Traditional, had a cushty victory in 14:22.

ELITE Males: 1 H Johnson (Salf) 14:22; 2 A Loughlin (Liv PS) 14:38; 3 C McLeod (S&SH) 14:48; 4 A Ballard (Chelm) 14:54; 5 T Hodgson (Salf) 15:01; 6 J Wragg (Roth) 15:04

M45: 1 J Papapia 15:45

M55: 1 J O’Brien 16:48

U20: 2 J Llewellyn (Charn) 15:05

B Race (chosen)

M60: 1 S Watmough (Warr) 19:16

Girls: 1 R Pal (Leeds) 17:31

GREAT YARMOUTH PROMENADE 5, Norfolk, Could 13

General: 1 L Smith (Norw) 24:58; 2 W Cork (Norw) 25:01; 3 M Tub (Norw RR) 25:17

M65: 1 J Moore (Norf G) 31:03

Girls: 1 E Grubb (Norw, W40) 27:49; 2 L Finch (Bure) 28:30; 3 R Hughes (Learn) 29:20

W40: 2 H Carr (Wym) 29:59

W50: 1 L Knights (Vegan) 33:57