Great North Run - Historical Results

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fetcheveryone Jan 2019 1:40pm, 17 Jan 2019 20,890 posts	0 fetcheveryone I've had a user ask for help in sourcing GNR results from 1996. The organisers' website goes back to 2005: greatrun.org Could anyone help locate anything older than that?
Alice the Camel Jan 2019 5:58pm, 17 Jan 2019 3,690 posts	0 Alice the Camel Watching with interest! I ran it 2001, 2002 and 2003 (I think) and have tried to find official results without success.
Fizz :-) Jan 2019 9:26pm, 17 Jan 2019 3,047 posts	0 Fizz :-) I found this on the web: whispers runners world, sorry forums.runnersworld.co.uk
swittle Jan 2019 11:11pm, 17 Jan 2019 52,538 posts	0 swittle Newcastle Journal is available online through the British Library's British newspaper archive up to & inc. 1994 Note that you probably have to subscribe. I did a quick search, *great north run results' and this turned up some lists of names. The link above contains the results of my search and it appears the newspaper published the GNR results as a matter of course.
swittle Jan 2019 11:13pm, 17 Jan 2019 52,539 posts	0 swittle and, just to tease, here's that link. If you register, you can open 3 links. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
chunkywizard Jul 2019 10:02pm, 25 Jul 2019 6,644 posts	0 chunkywizard Just found this. Can you save the info from the free links? If so then if we all picked three years then we would have the full set soon. I can’t remember when I ran but I’m pretty sure in was between 1989 and 1996
chunkywizard Jul 2019 10:14pm, 25 Jul 2019 6,645 posts	0 chunkywizard To answer my own question, the search only finds one page of the paper and the OCR is rubbish so I couldn’t even get a hit on my surname
swittle Jul 2019 10:15pm, 25 Jul 2019 55,757 posts	0 swittle I'd forgotten about this, chunkywizard. I've not actually opened any pages yet but here's a link to the 'Register/Sign In' page: it's very long indeed, so you may be better registering through the link I gave above on 17 Jan. 2019. Good luck britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Surrey Phil Sep 2023 1:38pm, 25 Sep 2023 9,751 posts	0 Surrey Phil I made an enquiry as to which ladies podiumed in the early years. I was told to check the local newspapers for anything before 2005. I can't imagine making a similar enquiry to London Marathon Events and being told to speak to the Evening Standard.