Great Manchester Run: Selemon Barega and Medina Eisa win elite 10km races

Ethiopians Selemon Barega and Medina Eisa won the men’s and women’s 10km races at the Great Manchester Run respectively.

Barega, who was Olympic champion in the distance on the track at Tokyo 2020, won in 27 minutes and 49 seconds.

Uruguay’s Santiago Catrofe finished three seconds behind, while last year’s champion, Vincent Ngetich Kipkemoi of Kenya, was third with 27:58.

There were two British finishers in the top 10, with Alfie Manthorpe fifth and Welshman Dewi Griffiths in eighth.

Olympic 800m champions Keely Hodgkinson MBE and Dame Kelly Holmes were in attendance to start the men’s 10k and the half marathons.

In the women’s 10km, it was a comfortable win for 20-year-old Eisa in 30:42.

American Emily Sisson was second in 31:11, with Eisa’s fellow Ethiopian Gotytom Gebreslase in third.

British athletes Amy-Eloise Neale and Verity Ockenden finished seventh and ninth respectively.