Great Edinburgh Run

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Great Edinburgh Run

The Great Edinburgh Run was an annual ten-mile road running race in the city centre of Edinburgh in Scotland from 1993 to 2017. It was part of the Great Run series of competitions, a 10 km (6.2 mi) event which extended to ten miles (16 km) from 2014.

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Great Edinburgh Run
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A fun runner at the race finish point in 2009
DateEarly October
LocationEdinburgh
Event typeRoad
Distance10 mile
Established1993
Official siteGreat Edinburgh Run
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The race was first run in 1993 as the Great Caledonian Run.[1] It 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 races 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 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 it returned 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]

From 2005 the Great Edinburgh Run was 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] Amateur runner Dave Lewis won the 1994 men's race ahead of Olympians John Treacy and Gary Staines.[8]

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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

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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 Béhar (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
23rd[18] 2015  Abeje Ayana (ETH) 48:44  Jess Coulson (GBR) 56:06
24th 2016  Daniel Wallis (NZL) 51:11  Hillory Davis (AUS) 66.13
25th (last)[19] 2017  Daniel Wallis (NZL) 50:23  Hillory Davis (AUS) 63:42
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