Simplyhealth Great North 5K & Simplyhealth Junior and Mini Great North Run About the Events Timetable Human Interest Runners Course Maps
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7 - 8 SEPTEMBER 2019 MEDIA GUIDE CONTENTS Weekend Contacts / TV Times Simplyhealth Great North 5k & Simplyhealth Junior and Mini Great North Run About the Events Timetable Human Interest Runners Course Maps Great North CityGames About the Event Timetable Athletes to Watch Event Site Map Press Release Elite Start List Simplyhealth Great North Run About the Event Timetable Official Starters Elite Start List Celebrity Runners Human Interest Runners Course Map Press Release Roll of Honour Notes to Editors WEEKEND CONTACTS Simplyhealth Great North 5k/Junior and Mini Great North Run Clare Cruddas - 07970816946 - [email protected] Great North City Games Richard Easterbrook - 07487 869630 - [email protected] Simplyhealth Great North Run Philippa Brock - 07921582509 - [email protected] Clare Cruddas - 07970 816946 - [email protected] Richard Easterbrook - 07487 869630 - [email protected] Nicola Hedley - 07850 788 310 - [email protected] TV TIMES Saturday 7 September The Great North CityGames will be live on BBC One and BBC One HD from 13:15 to 14:45 Sunday 8 September The Simplyhealth Great North Run is live on BBC One and BBC One HD from 09:30 to 13:30. Highlights will be shown on BBC Two from 17:00 to 18:00. SIMPLYHEALTH GREAT NORTH 5K & SIMPLYHEALTH JUNIOR & MINI GREAT NORTH RUN About the events The Simplyhealth Great North 5k will get this massive weekend of sport for the North East off to a running start, when more than 1,000 participants are set to pound the pavements of the Newcastle Gateshead Quayside. This event attracts all levels of runner, from gentle joggers to those looking to smash their personal best. This year the event has teamed up with the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust, offering a ‘blue wave’ of around 200 NHS staff to run the 5k route. This is the culmination of a campaign between The Trust and The Great Run Company designed to support the physical and mental well-being of Trust employees. This will be followed by the UK’s biggest children’s running event – the Simplyhealth Junior and Mini Great North Run, giving young runners of all abilities the chance to be involved in an amazing weekend of sport. Over 8,500 children and their families will be their greatest and take to the NewcastleGateshead Quayside across the day. New for 2019, the Junior and Mini Great North 50 The Great North Run has been working with local physios and the Great North Children’s hospital to give even more children the chance to be involved, by the inclusion of a 50 metre event distance. All children taking part were invited to walk, push, run or anything in between, along the Newcastle Quayside, where they’ll finish under the gantry. Media Facilities: Your media pass will gain you access to the start and finish areas, located on the Newcastle Quayside, between the Tyne and Millennium Bridges. Interviews will be available. Social media #GreatNorthRun @great_run facebook.com/GreatNorthRunGNR @great_run SIMPLYHEALTH GREAT NORTH 5K & SIMPLYHEALTH JUNIOR & MINI GREAT NORTH RUN TIMETABLE 08:00 START of Simplyhealth Great North 5k - Red Wave 08:05 START of Simplyhealth Great North 5k - White Wave 08:10 START of Simplyhealth Great North 5k - Green Wave 08:10 START of Simplyhealth Great North 5k - NHS Wave 09:15 Elite Male Mile Race 09:22 Elite Female Mile Race 10:00 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Girls - Green Wave (11 - 12 years) 10:10 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Girls - Orange Wave (9 - 10 years) 11:15 Start of Simplyhealth Mini Great North Run Wave 1 - Purple 11:55 Start of Simplyhealth Mini Great North Run Wave 2 - Blue 12:35 Start of Simplyhealth Mini Great North Run Wave 3 - Pink 13:15 Start of Simplyhealth Mini Great North Run Wave 4 - Orange 13:55 Start of Simplyhealth Mini Great North Run Wave 5 - Green 14:35 Start of Simplyhealth Mini Great North Run Wave 6 - Red 15:05 Start of Simplyhealth Junior and Mini Great North Wheelchair Wave & Start of Junior and Mini 50 Wave 16:05 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Boys - Red Wave (15 - 16 years) 16:10 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Girls - Red Wave (15 - 16 years) 16:15 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Boys - Blue Wave (13 - 14 years) 16:20 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Girls - Blue Wave (13 - 14 years) 17:00 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Boys - Green Wave (11 - 12 years) 17:10 Start of Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run Boys - Orange Wave (9 - 10 years) SIMPLYHEALTH JUNIOR & MINI GREAT NORTH RUN HUMAN INTEREST STORIES The Simplyhealth Great North Run weekend gives ordinary people the chance to be their greatest doing extraordinary things and celebrates the power of sport to change lives. Here are some of the inspirational young runners taking part in this years’ Simplyhealth Junior and Mini Great North Run. Katie - South Shields 16 year old Katie’s dad sadly took his own life when his mental health got the better of him. Katie was very close to her dad, but had no idea what he was going through. Running was a big part of their lives and they would run together for fun. This year Katie is doing the run for her dad and to reduce the male suicide rate. Charli - Newcastle Charli Hopper was diagnosed with three large holes in her heart at just three weeks old and underwent 7 hours of life saving open- heart surgery at just 12 weeks old at the Freeman Hospital Now a thriving 11 year old Charli does lots of charity work. This year she decided to enter the Simplyhealth Junior Great North Run to raise money for the heart until that saved her life as a baby. Charli’s dad David had always wanted to get a tattoo of her scar so that Charli didn’t feel alone. When he surprised Charli with the tattoo this year, she was ecstatic. SIMPLYHEALTH JUNIOR & MINI GREAT NORTH RUN HUMAN INTEREST STORIES Caitlyn 16 year old Caitlyn has run in every Simplyhealth Junior & Mini Great North Run since 3 years old with the support of her Olympian cousin Aly Dixon. This year she will be taking on the junior event for the last time, with her cousin cheering her on. Consett rugby club u8’s The team mates, including Aiden and his sister Lucie are running the Simplyhealth Junior & Mini Great North Run to raise funds for Wards 4/14 the Children’s Oncology wards at the RVI Newcastle. Aiden has spent a lot of time there over the past 3.5 years, receiving treatment for Leukaemia and in March 2019 (aged 7) he proudly ‘RANG THE BELL’. He has overcome so much with amazing positivity and sheer determination. The rugby core values are Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline and Sportsmanship (TREDS) something Aiden and his team mates demonstrate on a weekly basis not only at the rugby club but in daily life, what they are doing here is not only amazing but demonstrates these core values through and through. Hebburn Town Juniors Football Club In June the Great North Run were announced as a founding partner of Made By Sport, a national initiative which was launched by HRH Duke of Sussex, Anthony Joshua and Nicola Adams. This four year campaign has been created to support the vital work of community sports organisations across the UK. It aims to champion the power sport has to change lives and raise £40m in additional funds for organisations that are using sport to transform the lives of young people in the UK over the next four years. This year we’re highlighting the work of some amazing community sports organisations and the extraordinary people that give up their time and energy to sustain them in order to motivate runners to support the campaign in 2020 and help Made By Sport use sport to change the lives of young people in the North East Hebburn Town Juniors FC is community football club that over 16 years has grown from a handful of kids and a couple of coaches training in the local park, to 56 teams that are home to over 600 players, it’s now an organisation that many in the local area consider to be the heartbeat of the town. The club runs on volunteer parent power and fundraising, with many parents taking on the role of coaching and managing teams and many more fundraising through events like the Simplyhealth Great North Run, a 20 strong team from the club will be taking on the Junior Great North Run to raise funds for their club and the charity Hebburn Helps. Mini 50 Start RUN NORTH GREAT 5K,JUNIOR &MINI SIMPLYHEALTH FINISH START Millennium Bridge RIVER TYNE RIVER Baltic Tyne Bridge Event Village Sage High Level Bridge Gateshead Hawks Rd GATESHEAD Quarryfield Rd Rabbit Banks Rd High St COURSE MAP Riverside Promenade NEWCASTLE Key Junior Route Redheugh Bridge RIVER TYNE RIVER Mini Route Wheelchair Route Mini 50 Route Askew Rd 5k route GREAT NORTH CITYGAMES About the event The Great North CityGames is an established highlight of an action-packed sporting weekend for the region. Staged the day before the Simplyhealth Great North Run, the event is once again set to bring world class competition to the North-East. New for 2019, the event is moving to Stockton-on-Tees in the Tees Valley. Taking place in a unique, purpose-built athletics arena in the heart of the city, the exciting format lets spectators get up close to the action, and best of all – it’s free to spectate.