2016 Great North Run Half-Marathon Results: Mo Farah And Vivian Cheruiyot Win

Via greatrun.org
September 11, 2016

Top 10 men’s and women’s results from the 2016 Great North Run can be found below. Full results are here.

Athletics Weekly: Mo Farah Gets Third Consecutive Victory At Great North Run, Winning In 60:04 To Beat Dathan Ritzenhein By Eight Seconds Ritz pushed the pace to make it a two man race and try to “break Mo”, but Farah surged away from him in the final mile.
*MB: Ritz 2nd, Mo first at GNR

AW: Vivian Cheruiyot Runs 67:54 To Win GNR In Her Half-Marathon Debut It was a close race as Cheruiyot outkicked former London Marathon winner Priscah Jeptoo by just 1-second as Tirunesh Dibaba was 3rd (68:04).

Men’s Top 10:

Name	Overall Position	Finish Time	5k time	10k time	15k time
MO FARAH	1	1:00:04	0:14:17	0:28:32	0:42:36
DATHAN RITZENHEIN	2	1:00:12	0:14:15	0:28:32	0:42:35
EMMANUEL BETT	3	1:01:22	0:14:16	0:28:31	0:42:36
BASHIR ABDI	4	1:02:03	0:14:16	0:29:05	0:43:44
DUNCAN MAIYO	5	1:02:06	0:14:17	0:29:05	0:43:44
ABDI ABDIRAHMAN	6	1:02:46	0:14:16	0:29:05	0:43:49
CHRIS THOMPSON	7	1:03:35	0:14:15	0:29:23	0:44:22
BEN CONNOR	8	1:04:13	0:14:59	0:30:12	0:45:14
SCOTT OVERALL	9	1:04:39	0:14:36	0:30:05	0:45:23
MIKAEL EKVALL	10	1:04:52	0:15:00	0:30:39	0:45:48

Women’s Top 10:

Name	Overall Position	Finish Time	5k time	10k time	15k time
VIVIAN CHERUIYOT	1	1:07:54	0:17:01	0:33:20	0:48:54
PRISCAH JEPTOO	2	1:07:55	0:17:02	0:33:20	0:48:54
TIRUNESH DIBABA	3	1:08:04	0:17:02	0:33:21	0:48:56
JOYCE CHEPKIRUI	4	1:09:57	0:17:01	0:33:20	0:49:10
ELOISE WELLINGS	5	1:11:27	0:17:02	0:33:29	0:50:16
CHARLOTTE PURDUE	6	1:12:13	0:17:03	0:34:09	0:51:06
CASSIE FIEN	7	1:13:05	0:17:06	0:34:28	0:51:40
GEMMA STEEL	8	1:13:23	0:17:02	0:34:13	0:51:31
LILY PARTRIDGE	9	1:13:45	0:17:02	0:34:08	0:51:24
FREYA ROSS	10	1:15:22	0:17:14	0:35:20	0:53:07