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 NationalityTime 1 Mo Farah 59:22 2 Stanley Biwott 59:24 3 Mike Kigen 1:00:10 4 Stephen Mokoka 1:00:40 5 Thomas Ayeko 1:01:14 6 Bashir Abdi 1:02:06 7 Stephen Sambu 1:02:22 8 Mark Kiptoo 1:02:32 9 Masato Kikuchi 1:03:13 10 Timothy Toroitich 1:03:14 11 Callum Hawkins 1:03:35 12 Juan Luis Barrios 1:04:38 13 Tesfaalem Mehari 1:05:18 14 Jonny Mellor 1:05:25 15 Ian Hudspith 1:06:08 16 Marcel Berni 1:06:29 17 Neil Renault 1:06:58 18 Carl Smith 1:07:07 19 Collis Birmingham 1:07:55 20 Jonny Hay 1:07:57
Elite Women Position Athlete NationalityTime 1 Mary Keitany 1:07:32 2 Gemma Steel 1:11:00 3 Jeļena Prokopčuka 1:11:52 4 Alyson Dixon 1:12:07 5 Adriana Nelson 1:12:29 6 Reia Iwade 1:12:41 7 Sara Hall 1:15:45 8 Dianne Lauder 1:20:33 9 Tori Green 1:21:56 10 Diane Moore 1:22:34 11 Alex Sneddon 1:23:00 12 Sarah Cumber 1:23:50 13 Sarah Murphy 1:24:41 14 Rebekah Gardner 1:28:13 15 Michelle Avery 1:34:20
Wheelchair races Wheelchair Men Position Athlete NationalityTime 1 David Weir 42:46 2 Simon Lawson 44:44 3 Josh Cassidy 45:20 4 Kenny van Weeghel 46:30 5 Rafael Botello Jiménez 46:30 6 Brett Crossley 49:19 7 Mark Telford 49:21 8 Will Smith 50:57 9 Callum Hall 52:21 10 Matthew Clarke 54:14 11 Anthony Gott 55:47 12 Sam Kolek 55:54 13 Rob Smith 1:00:48
Wheelchair Women Position Athlete NationalityTime 1 Shelly Woods 53:38 2 Amanda McGrory 53:49 3 Margriet van den Broek 53:58 4 Nikki Emerson 1:06:42 5 Gemma Scott 1:07:48 6 Martyna Snopek 1:11:02 7 Jen Warren 1:30:44
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