# 2015 Great North Run

The 35th Great North Run took place on 13 September 2015 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom with the men's and women's elite races and wheelchair races. World 5000 metres and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah won the men's race for the second year in a row. He became the first British man to defend his title since Mike McLeod won the first two events in 1981 and 1982, and is only the third man to achieve such a feat; Kenyan Benson Masya is the only other male athlete to have defended his title. Kenyan Mary Keitany also won the women's race for a second consecutive year, the first woman to do so since Liz McColgan in 1996.
Briton David Weir won the men's wheelchair race for the sixth time after missing the race in 2014. Shelley Woods also defended her women's wheelchair title, making it her seventh.
The event was marred by the death of a runner, who was identified on 15 September as 58-year-old David Colley from Hull.

## Results
### Elite races
#### Elite Men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Mo Farah | United Kingdom | 59:22 |
| 2 | Stanley Biwott | Kenya | 59:24 |
| 3 | Mike Kigen | Kenya | 1:00:10 |
| 4 | Stephen Mokoka | South Africa | 1:00:40 |
| 5 | Thomas Ayeko | Uganda | 1:01:14 |
| 6 | Bashir Abdi | Belgium | 1:02:06 |
| 7 | Stephen Sambu | Kenya | 1:02:22 |
| 8 | Mark Kiptoo | Kenya | 1:02:32 |
| 9 | Masato Kikuchi | Japan | 1:03:13 |
| 10 | Timothy Toroitich | Uganda | 1:03:14 |
| 11 | Callum Hawkins | United Kingdom | 1:03:35 |
| 12 | Juan Luis Barrios | Mexico | 1:04:38 |
| 13 | Tesfaalem Mehari | Ethiopia | 1:05:18 |
| 14 | Jonny Mellor | United Kingdom | 1:05:25 |
| 15 | Ian Hudspith | United Kingdom | 1:06:08 |
| 16 | Marcel Berni | Switzerland | 1:06:29 |
| 17 | Neil Renault | United Kingdom | 1:06:58 |
| 18 | Carl Smith | United Kingdom | 1:07:07 |
| 19 | Collis Birmingham | Australia | 1:07:55 |
| 20 | Jonny Hay | United Kingdom | 1:07:57 |

#### Elite Women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Mary Keitany | Kenya | 1:07:32 |
| 2 | Gemma Steel | United Kingdom | 1:11:00 |
| 3 | Jeļena Prokopčuka | Latvia | 1:11:52 |
| 4 | Alyson Dixon | United Kingdom | 1:12:07 |
| 5 | Adriana Nelson | United States | 1:12:29 |
| 6 | Reia Iwade | Japan | 1:12:41 |
| 7 | Sara Hall | United States | 1:15:45 |
| 8 | Dianne Lauder | United Kingdom | 1:20:33 |
| 9 | Tori Green | United Kingdom | 1:21:56 |
| 10 | Diane Moore | United Kingdom | 1:22:34 |
| 11 | Alex Sneddon | United Kingdom | 1:23:00 |
| 12 | Sarah Cumber | United Kingdom | 1:23:50 |
| 13 | Sarah Murphy | United Kingdom | 1:24:41 |
| 14 | Rebekah Gardner | United Kingdom | 1:28:13 |
| 15 | Michelle Avery | United Kingdom | 1:34:20 |

### Wheelchair races
#### Wheelchair Men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | David Weir | United Kingdom | 42:46 |
| 2 | Simon Lawson | United Kingdom | 44:44 |
| 3 | Josh Cassidy | Canada | 45:20 |
| 4 | Kenny van Weeghel | Netherlands | 46:30 |
| 5 | Rafael Botello Jiménez | Spain | 46:30 |
| 6 | Brett Crossley | United Kingdom | 49:19 |
| 7 | Mark Telford | United Kingdom | 49:21 |
| 8 | Will Smith | United Kingdom | 50:57 |
| 9 | Callum Hall | United Kingdom | 52:21 |
| 10 | Matthew Clarke | United Kingdom | 54:14 |
| 11 | Anthony Gott | United Kingdom | 55:47 |
| 12 | Sam Kolek | United Kingdom | 55:54 |
| 13 | Rob Smith | United Kingdom | 1:00:48 |

#### Wheelchair Women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Shelly Woods | United Kingdom | 53:38 |
| 2 | Amanda McGrory | United States | 53:49 |
| 3 | Margriet van den Broek | Netherlands | 53:58 |
| 4 | Nikki Emerson | United Kingdom | 1:06:42 |
| 5 | Gemma Scott | United Kingdom | 1:07:48 |
| 6 | Martyna Snopek | Poland | 1:11:02 |
| 7 | Jen Warren | United Kingdom | 1:30:44 |