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| Date: | Early October |
| Location: | Edinburgh |
| Type: | Road |
| Distance: | 10 mile |
| Est: | 1993 |
| Homepage: | 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 10km (10miles) event which extended to ten miles (16 km) from 2014.
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]
Key:
| class=unsortable | Edition | Year | class=unsortable | Men's winner | Time (h:m:s) | class=unsortable | Women's winner | Time (h:m:s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st[9] | 1993 | 28:37 | 33:37 | |||||
| 2nd | 1994 | 28:56 | ? | ? | ||||
| 3rd[10] | 1995 | 28:48 | 32:27 | |||||
| 4th[11] | 1996 | 29:11 | 33:16 | |||||
| 5th[12] | 1997 | 29:05 | 32:43 | |||||
| 6th[13] | 1998 | 22:52 | 24:54 | |||||
| 7th[14] | 1999 | 28:25 | 32:26 | |||||
| 8th | 2000 | 25:28 | 29:26 | |||||
| 9th[15] | 2001 | 33:16 | 37:46 | |||||
| 10th | 2002 | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
| 11th[16] | 2003 | ? | ? | 37:25 | ||||
| 12th | 2004 | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
| 13th | 2005 | 28:22 | 32:42 | |||||
| 14th | 2006 | 28:38 | 32:25 | |||||
| 15th | 2007 | 29:14 | 32:53 | |||||
| 16th | 2008 | 28:59 | 32:20 | |||||
| 17th | 2009 | 28:13 | 32:38 | |||||
| 18th[17] | 2010 | 28:46 | 32:10 | |||||
| 19th | 2011 | 28:03 | 32:28 | |||||
| 20th | 2012 | 29:23 | 33:12 | |||||
| 21st | 2013 | 30:18 | 34:22 | |||||
| 22nd | 2014 | 49:36 | 56:06 | |||||
| 23rd[18] | 2015 | 48:44 | 56:06 | |||||
| 24th | 2016 | 51:11 | 66.13 | |||||
| 25th (last)[19] | 2017 | 50:23 | 63:42 |