The 2024 adidas Manchester Marathon, Europe’s fifth-largest race, takes place on Sunday April 14
More 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.
Leading males’s contenders embrace Adam Clarke, Charlie Hulson and Matthew Crehan.
Clarke is maybe in one of the best present form having recorded a 61:54 over half the space 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 National champion has raced sparingly throughout 2023 and 2024 up to now.
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.
In 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 might be discovered right here.
Manchester Marathon
Joining the sector this 12 months can be Great Britain’s most profitable feminine Olympian, Dame Laura Kenny. The six-time gold medallist can be taking to the streets on foot since not too long ago saying her retirement from observe 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, members 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. Participants will set off beneath Trafford Arch at White City Circle, making their well past Old Trafford earlier than heading to the town centre through Chorlton and Hulme.
After reaching the town centre, runners will then head in the direction of Stretford, passing by way of 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 by way of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, with Talbot Road main the best way to the end line.
Along the best way, runners can anticipate to absorb a few of Manchester’s most iconic landmarks, from Bridgewater Hall and Beetham Tower to the ‘Theatre of Dreams’ itself, Old Trafford.
Manchester marathon route map
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