McColgan bids for Great North Run victory

A J Bell Great North Run

Date: Sunday, 8 September Course: Newcastle to South Shields

Coverage: Watch unrecorded connected BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app from 10:00 BST; travel unrecorded connected BBC Radio Newcastle; watch highlights connected BBC Two from 18:00 BST

Eilish McColgan bids to triumph nan Great North Run half-marathon for nan first clip erstwhile she lines up alongside 60,000 different runners connected Sunday.

The Scot returned from wounded to compete for Great Britain astatine nan Paris Olympics, finishing 15th successful nan 10,000m.

She enters this weekend's title successful overmuch amended information having won nan Big Half marathon successful London past play successful 69 minutes and 14 seconds.

The 33-year-old British grounds holder will travel up against two-time champion Vivian Cheruiyot, of Kenya, and Ethiopia's Senbere Teferi.

While McColgan's mum Liz won nan Great North Run 3 times, Eilish's champion consequence is 2nd spot successful 2021.

"Returning from this year's Paris Olympics and connected nan roadworthy backmost from injury, I'm particularly looking guardant to nan tens of thousands of spectators and supporters lining nan streets, arsenic good arsenic nan 60,000 runners taking portion alongside me," said McColgan.

Britain's Marc Scott, nan 2021 Great North Run champion, competes successful nan men's title against nan likes of Olympic 10,000m metallic medallist Berihu Aregawi and 2021 London Marathon victor Sisay Lemma, some from Ethiopia.

Leading nan section successful nan men's wheelchair title is 2022 Commonwealth Games champion JohnBoy Smith, while chap Briton Jade Hall will bid to adhd nan 2024 Great North title to her triumph successful 2021.

The yearly 13.1-mile title starts successful Newcastle metropolis centre, crosses nan River Tyne and goes done Gateshead earlier finishing by nan oversea successful South Shields.

Runners raise millions of pounds for kindness and you tin watch broad sum connected BBC One from 10:00 BST connected Sunday.

10:25 BST - elite wheelchair athletes

10:30 BST - elite women

10:32 BST - visually impaired

10:55 BST - elite men and masses start