Those include Stewart McSweyn, the Australian record holder for both the mile (3:48.37) and 10,000m (27:23.80) Eilish McColgan, the British record holder for 5000m (14:28.55) Edward Cheserek, the Kenyan record holder for the indoor mile (3:49.44) and Dominique Scott, the South African record holder for 3000m indoors (8:41.18). Britain's Marc Scott (1:00:35) and Jake Smith (1:00:31), and Belgium's Soufiane Bouchikhi (1:02:59) are also competing on the men's side, as is Britain's Charlotte Purdue (1:08:23).Īn interesting element to this year's race is the inclusion of several track athletes making their half-marathon debuts. Other established athletes slated to run on Sunday are the two Olympic Marathon bronze medalists, Bashir Abdi of Belgium and Molly Seidel of the United States who have personal bests of 1:01:16 and 1:08:29, respectively. The versatile Obiri is the only woman in history to win world titles in indoor track, outdoor track and cross country. However, in her first attempt at the distance in Istanbul last April she ran an exceptional 1:04:51 making her the fourth-fastest Kenyan of all-time.

Obiri, 31, twice the Olympic 5000m silver medalist including in 2021, will be running only her second half-marathon. Rupp will be using Sunday's race as part of his training for the Chicago Marathon on October 10. A veteran of seven half-marathons, the former Oregon Duck has a personal best of 59:47 from the point-to-point Roma-Ostia half-marathon in Italy in 2018. He is coming off of an eighth place finish in the Olympic Marathon in Sapporo last month. Rupp, 35, a won the Olympic 10,000m silver medal in London in 2012 and the marathon bronze medal in Rio in 2016. The race will be contested for the 40th time and the first time since 2019. Olympic medalists Galen Rupp of the United States and Hellen Obiri of Kenya are the top names for Sunday's Great North Run half-marathon from Newcastle to South Shields in England.

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