Scottish runner equals Jo Pavey’s hat-trick feat and runs quickest time by a British girl in 2025.
In a triumphant return to London, Eilish McColgan powered to a record-equalling third Vitality London 10,000 victory.
McColgan, already the British document holder over the gap on the street, clocked 30:35, to document the quickest time over the gap by a British feminine this yr.
She completed forward of Jessica Warner-Judd (31:14) – the third-fastest time within the UK this yr – and Alex Bell (31:31) – the fifth quickest.
The end result adopted McColgan’s third place on the 2025 Nice North Run earlier this month and sharpened her kind forward of her debut look on the TCS New York Metropolis Marathon on November 2.
On the win and equalling Pavey’s document, McColgan mentioned: “I’m completely buzzing with at the moment. I believe that was solely 10 seconds off my greatest on this course from three years in the past. So it’s good to know you possibly can nonetheless come again from harm and sickness and compete at this stage. To match Jo Pavey, who’s one among my heroes on this sport, is actually particular.”
On the race and a robust discipline, she added: “After I wakened this morning the climate was superb, so I used to be like, ‘Please keep like this!’ It was very nice. It was a very good discipline at the moment, numerous high-quality males on the very prime of the sphere so there have been folks round me the entire means and that makes a giant distinction too, reasonably than doing a girls’s-only race, it’s good to have a giant combine.
“I believe that undoubtedly helped the final couple of miles after I was beginning to actually harm and tire and I used to be battling all the best way to the end line with folks.”
Warner-Judd, who can be set to race in New York in November, mentioned: “It was actually enjoyable, I grew up about half-hour away on the prepare. We used to come back for day journeys to London as a household and working previous sure locations that we went is very nice and nostalgic.
“So many individuals cheering you on and my dad and sister the place right here and my husband was racing as properly, it’s simply been a very enjoyable day trip. This end is simply superb, once you stroll previous all of it; it evokes you to do London Marathon as properly.”
Within the males’s race, Zak Mahamed gained his first Vitality London 10,000 title in 29:07.
Blake Moore produced a surprising run to complete in second in 29:45 simply forward of Seyfu Jamaal, who clocked 29:54.
Mahamed mentioned: “I’m very comfortable! I’ve been away from racing for greater than two months so at the moment was to check out the place the health was. I’ve obtained Valencia Half Marathon on the finish of October, so that’s one among my primary targets.”
David Weir made it 4 wins on the Vitality London 10,000 within the males’s wheelchair race in 21:18, simply 12 seconds off his course document set in 2016.
He crossed the road forward of Michael McCabe (25:33) and Illias Zghoundi (29:28).
Within the girls’s wheelchair race, Erin O’Flaherty was the victor in 35:45 forward of Roz Delap (39:18) and Yasmin Hodkinson (41:15).
