British titles for Callum Elson, Scott Beattie and Verity Ockenden – UK road results

National crowns were on offer of the eve of the Great North Run where we also feature the leading results from Sir Mo Farah’s last race and major relay action

UK ATHLETICS MILE & 5km CHAMPIONSHIPS, Newcastle-Gateshead, September 8

The women’s mile was cancelled due to lack of entries but it was Callum Elson, who this year who has improved to 3:35.39 at 1500m, who won and confirmed his spot in next month’s World Road Running Championships in Latvia.

He won in 4:08 from James Gormley, who ran 7:49.61 for 3000m in July and is also in the form of his life.

Scott Beattie, who ran 27:58.92 for 10,000m in Stanford this yea, and won a 5000m in Dublin in 13:25.53 in July, kicked away in the last 400m to win in 13:56 with Tom Mortimer second and Rory Leonard third.

Scott Beattie (Great Run)

AW columnist Verity Ockenden was another to seal her Riga selection as she won in 15:26 with Eloise Walker and Calli Thackery taking the other medals.

Thackery was coming off her Big Half win which was sufficient to seal her selection for Latvia at the half-marathon.

Men (1M):
1 C Elson 4:08; 2 J Gormley 4:09; 3 T Dodd 4:09; 4 J Young 4:10; 5 J Skelly 4:11; 6 A Melloy 4:13; 7 D Bebbington 4:14; 8 M Wilson 4:24

Men (5km):
1 S Beattie 13:56; 2 T Mortimer 14:00; 3 R Leonard 14:03; 4 J Gray 14:10; 5 O Perrin 1:11; 6 J Escalante-Phillips 14:22; 7 A Manthorpe 14:23; 8 B Cole 14:28; 9 S Stirling 14:31; 10 A Milligan 14:37; 11 H McLuckie 14:48; 12 N Shreeve 14:54

Verity Ockenden (Great Run)

Women (5km):
1 V Ockenden 15:26; 2 E Walker 15:34; 3 C Thackery 15:44; 4 M Maclennan 16:17; 5 E Wallace 16:24; 6 S Astin 16:38; 7 G Kersey 16:51; 8 K Walker 17;04; 9 R Franklin 17:12; 10 J Wood 17:47

AJ BELL GREAT NORTH RUN, September 10

Tamirat Tola and Peres Jepchirchir were impressive and dominant winners but the major attention was on six-times winner Mo Farah’s last ever race.

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Tamirat Tola (David Hewitson)

Men:
1 Tamirat Tola ETH 59:58
2 Bashir Abdi BEL 61:20
3 Muktar Edris ETH 61:54
4 Mo Farah Newham 63:28
5 Efrem Gidey IRL 64:03
6 Andrew Butchart Central 64:30
7 Yoshiki Oshiro JPN 65:16
8 Kiseki Shiozawa JPN 65:24
9 Adam Lipschitz RSA 65:44
10 Andrew Heyes Hallam 65:46
11 Ryoma Inoue JPN 65:52
12 Koki Kamata JPN 66:02
13 Roy Hoornweg NED 66:57
14 Carl Avery Morpeth 67:17
15 Linton Taylor Leeds 67:29
16 Lawrence Mccourt Morpeth 67:36
17 David Bishop Derby 67:43
18 Alastair Watson Notts M45 67:50
19 Ollie Garrod Belgrave 68:02
20 Hamid Ben Daoud ESP 68:11

Women:
1 Peres Jepchirchir KEN 66:45
2 Sharon Lokedi…