Greater than 32,000 runners will take to the streets of Manchester this weekend to cowl 26.2 miles on one of many flattest programs within the UK.
Main males’s contenders embrace Adam Clarke, Charlie Hulson and Matthew Crehan.
Clarke is probably in the most effective present form having recorded a 61:54 over half the gap in Japan in February, whereas his marathon greatest is from Seville in 2022 the place he clocked 2:15:35.
Hulson’s greatest is 2:13:34 from the London elite marathon held in lockdown throughout 2020 however the former English Nationwide champion has raced sparingly throughout 2023 and 2024 thus far.
Crehan, the 2021 Manchester winner, recorded 2:18:26 on that event and has already run 2:19:30 earlier this 12 months in Seville.
Within the ladies’s area, Melissah Gibson and Georgie Bruinvels are main contenders.
Gibson is considerably of a prolific marathon racer, collaborating in 16 occasions throughout 2023 and two already this 12 months. She has a greatest of two:36:39 from the Seville race in February this 12 months.
Bruinvels completed third in Manchester within the 2023 race with 2:38:22.
The participant’s information may be discovered right here.
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Manchester Marathon
Becoming a member of the sphere this 12 months will probably be Nice Britain’s most profitable feminine Olympian, Dame Laura Kenny. The six-time gold medallist will probably be taking to the streets on foot since just lately asserting her retirement from monitor biking.
On the day, the primary wave of elite wheelchair athletes will set off at 8:55am, adopted by elite runners at 9am. Following this, contributors will set off in 10-minute intervals, with the final wave at 11:10am.
As with earlier years, the route will begin and finish in Trafford. Individuals will set off beneath Trafford Arch at White Metropolis Circle, making their well past Outdated Trafford earlier than heading to town centre through Chorlton and Hulme.
After reaching town centre, runners will then head in direction of Stretford, passing via Sale earlier than turning off earlier than Timperley and reaching Altrincham at across the 16-mile mark.
The ultimate leg of the route will take runners via Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, with Talbot Street main the best way to the end line.
Alongside the best way, runners can anticipate to soak up a few of Manchester’s most iconic landmarks, from Bridgewater Corridor and Beetham Tower to the ‘Theatre of Desires’ itself, Outdated Trafford.
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Manchester marathon route map
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