Yorkshire Marathon

The Yorkshire Marathon, sponsored by the Asda Foundation, is an annual marathon road running event held in York, UK in October, organised by Run For All Events.

Yorkshire Marathon
Date18 October 2020
LocationYork, United Kingdom
Event typeroad
Distancemarathon
Established2013
Official sitehttp://www.theyorkshiremarathon.com

The course starts the University of York and continues around the City Centre and past York Minster before heading out on the Vale of York and then returning to the finish at the university.

In the inaugural running of the event on 20 October 2013, over 3,800 runners finished the event.

Hour-long race highlights produced by Dream Team Television were broadcast two weeks later by Channel 4 and were subsequently shown by other sports channels including Sky Sports, BT Sport, British Eurosport and Premier Sports.

Winners

Key:   Course record

Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
2018  Paul Martelletti (ENG) 2:27:02  Katherine Wood (ENG) 2:41:35
2017  Ross Houston (SCO) 2:24:13  Tracy Millmore (ENG) 2:46:09
2016  Paul Martelletti (ENG) 2:19:36  Sarah Lowery (ENG) 2:45:53
2015  Edwin Korir (KEN) 2:15:06  Joasia Zakrzewski (SCO) 2:48:48
2014  Boniface Kongin (KEN) 2:13:59  Shona Fletcher (SCO) 2:43:40
2013  Edwin Korir (KEN) 2:13:31  Helen Koskei (KEN) 2:40:10

WHEELCHAIR RACE

Year Winner Time (h:m:s)
2018  Christopher Nash (ENG) 2:15:12
2017  Bret Crossley (ENG) 1:45:16
2016  Calum Hall (ENG) 2:01:35
2015  Bret Crossley (ENG) 1:48:30
2014  Bret Crossley (ENG) 2:11:10
2013  Christopher Nash (ENG) 3:00:49
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