Great Edinburgh Run

The Great Edinburgh Run was an annual ten-mile road running event which took place in the city centre of Edinburgh in Scotland. The last event was in April 2017 and the organiser have no plans to reinstate the event at present. Part of the Great Run series of competitions, it was formerly a 10 km event, switching to the ten-mile distance in 2014.

Great Edinburgh Run
A fun runner at the race finish point in 2009
DateEarly October
LocationEdinburgh
Event typeRoad
Distance10 mile
Established1993
Official siteGreat Edinburgh Run

The event was first held in 1993 under the title of the Great Caledonian Run.[1] The race was moved from Edinburgh to the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire in 1998 and was hosted there for seven years as part of the Balmoral Road Races, a collection of race from 3 km to 10 km.[2] The Caledonian run became more of a national level competition in its stint in Balmoral as the 5-mile race. The race in Balmoral was voted as the nation's most scenic run by Runner's World magazine in 2004.[3] The competition was financially supported by Scottish Enterprise Grampian in a partnership to promote tourism in north-east Scotland, but after the BBC decided to stop televising the event the decision was made for it to return to Edinburgh in 2005.[4] During the seven-year period that the run was not held in the city, a separate and unrelated competition was held there under the title of the Capital City Challenge 10K.[5] The Great Edinburgh Run acquired its current title in 2006.[6]

Since 2005 the Great Edinburgh Run has been held on a course within the city centre. Starting in Holyrood Park, runners would see a number of the city's famous landmarks such as Edinburgh Castle, Greyfriars Bobby, Scott Monument and Arthur's Seat.

The men's course record for the 10 km (28:03 minutes) was set by Martin Mathathi in 2011, while Florence Kiplagat is the women's course record holder with her time of 32:10 minutes from 2010.[7] At the second edition in 1994, amateur runner Dave Lewis won the men's race ahead of Olympians John Treacy and Gary Staines.[8]

Past winners

Key:

Crowds gathering for the 2009 race
Latvia's Jeļena Prokopčuka won three times consecutively from 2005 to 2007.

  Course record   8 km course   5-mile course

Edition Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
1st[9] 1993  Gary Staines (GBR) 28:37  Lyudmila Borisova (RUS) 33:37
2nd 1994  Dave Lewis (GBR) 28:56 ? ?
3rd[10] 1995  Gary Staines (GBR) 28:48  Liz McColgan (GBR) 32:27
4th[11] 1996  Christopher Kelong (KEN) 29:11  Yvonne Murray (GBR) 33:16
5th[12] 1997  Christopher Kelong (KEN) 29:05  Liz McColgan (GBR) 32:43
6th[13] 1998  Abdellah Behar (FRA) 22:52  Paula Radcliffe (GBR) 24:54
7th[14] 1999  Thomas Nyariki (KEN) 28:25  Tegla Loroupe (KEN) 32:26
8th 2000  Mark Carroll (IRL) 25:28  Jo Wilkinson (GBR) 29:26
9th[15] 2001  Dan Whitehead (GBR) 33:16  Janette Stevenson (GBR) 37:46
10th 2002 ????
11th[16] 2003 ? ?  Liz McColgan (GBR) 37:25
12th 2004 ????
13th 2005  Juan Carlos de la Ossa (ESP) 28:22  Jeļena Prokopčuka (LAT) 32:42
14th 2006  Fabiano Joseph (TAN) 28:38  Jeļena Prokopčuka (LAT) 32:25
15th 2007  Hosea Macharinyang (KEN) 29:14  Jeļena Prokopčuka (LAT) 32:53
16th 2008  Bernard Kipyego (KEN) 28:59  Benita Johnson (AUS) 32:20
17th 2009  Micah Kogo (KEN) 28:13  Deena Kastor (USA) 32:38
18th[17] 2010  Titus Mbishei (KEN) 28:46  Florence Kiplagat (KEN) 32:10
19th[7] 2011  Martin Mathathi (KEN) 28:03  Lucy Kabuu (KEN) 32:28
20th 2012  Tom Humphries (GBR) 29:23  Jess Coulson (GBR) 33:12
21st 2013  Andrew Lemoncello (GBR) 30:18  Jen Rhines (USA) 34:22
22nd 2014  Chris Thompson (GBR) 49:36  Gemma Steel (GBR) 56:06
24th 2016  Daniel Wallis (NZL) 51:11  Hillory Davis (AUS) 66.13

References
  1. Gillon, Doug (1993-10-02). Martin at head of the capital show. Herald Scotland. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  2. Roden, Alan (2005-01-20). Road race gets set to run back to Capital. Scotsman. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  3. Bupa Great Caledonian is voted most scenic run. Bupa (2004-01-28). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  4. Smith, Graeme (2004-08-18). End of road for Balmoral races as BBC pulls out . Herald Scotland. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  5. Mooney, Chris (2004-09-13). Capital city challenge 2004. Scotsman. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  6. Edwards, Gareth (2006-05-08). Runners reign supreme in drizzle. Scotsman. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  7. Martin, David (2011-10-02). Mathathi clocks course record in Edinburgh 10Km. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  8. Lewis runs away with capital title . Herald Scotland (1994-10-03). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  9. Sporting Digest: Athletics. The Independent (1993-10-04). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  10. Sporting Digest: Athletics . The Independent (1995-10-02). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  11. Murray is the homecoming queen in road race. Herald Scotland (1996-09-30). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  12. Confident McColgan sets record on way to victory . Herald Scotland (1997-10-20). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  13. Smith, Graeme (1998-04-13). Scot yields to Radcliffe's brilliance as Englishwoman sets new world best McColgan bows to the queen of Balmoral. Herald Scotland. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  14. Gillon, Doug (1999-04-26). Radcliffe is chasing an elusive dream Queen of the road aiming for track glory. Herald Scotland. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  15. Smith, Graeme (2001-04-16). Radcliffe has to give up crown Wami takes Balmoral title in a late sprint to line. Herald Scotland. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  16. Smith, Graeme (2003-05-12). Holmes toughs it out at Balmoral. Herald Scotland. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
  17. BUPA Great Edinburgh Run: Kenyan stars Mbishei & Kiplagat run away with the glory . Daily Record (2010-05-03). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.
List of winners from 2005 onwards
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