Eilish McColgan sets British and European 10k record at Great Manchester Run
Eilish McColgan set a British and European 10km record as she finished runner-up at the Great Manchester Run.
Dundee's McColgan, 31, took two seconds off Paula Radcliffe's mark from 2003 with a time of 30 minutes 19 seconds, four seconds behind Hellen Obiri.Charlotte Purdue was seventh and fellow Briton Steph Twell eighth. The men's race was won by New Zealand's Jake Robertson in 28:06, ahead of Australian Jack Reyner, with Liverpool's Abdulqani Sharif in fifth place.
with applause before the start for the 22 victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack, on its fifth anniversary.
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