Overview

• Roughly 60,000 people took on the 13.1-mile course from Newcastle to South Shields as more than 200,000 supporters lined the route.
• Kenya’s Alex Mutiso won the men’s elite race in 1:00:52, with Bashir Abdi second and defending champion Abel Kipchumba third.
• Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui took the women’s elite crown in 1:09:32, ahead of Vivian Cheruiyot and Eilish McColgan.
• Britons Sean Frame and Mel Nicholls won the men’s and women’s wheelchair races in 49:24 and 1:05:24 respectively.
• Drew Graham and his team were reported to have set a Guinness World Record for a pushed wheelchair half-marathon, finishing in 1:18:02, and organisers set the 2026 race for September 13 with the ballot now open.