"annual Great Manchester Run which has been hosted since 2003 and has become one of the most popular 10 km runs in the UK. In addition, the city also hosts the annual Great City Games, featuring a 110m sprint track on Deansgate in Manchester city centre. The world's top athletes are invited and in 2009 Usain Bolt took part. Manchester is a city that is steeped in Rugby League tradition, although there hadn't been a professional Rugby League club based in Manchester since the Belle Vue Rangers disbanded as a club after the 1954-55 season. However, in 2017, high-level Rugby"
"Great CityGames The Great CityGames is a major street athletics event held twice annually in Manchester, Newcastle and Gateshead. The former is held in conjunction to the Great Manchester Run, a major 10k generally held on the Sunday. The first event was in May 2009. The latter is held in conjunction to the Great North Run, a major half marathon attracting world-famous athletes. The first event was in September 2009. The event was originally designed to promote the Great Runs, however, the Games soon became a major British athletics event, attracting famous athletes such as Usain Bolt, David Rudisha and"
"Kim Collins. Great CityGames The Great CityGames is a major street athletics event held twice annually in Manchester, Newcastle and Gateshead. The former is held in conjunction to the Great Manchester Run, a major 10k generally held on the Sunday. The first event was in May 2009. The latter is held in conjunction to the Great North Run, a major half marathon attracting world-famous athletes. The first event was in September 2009. The event was originally designed to promote the Great Runs, however, the Games soon became a major British athletics event, attracting famous athletes such as Usain Bolt, David"
"Great Manchester Cycle The Great Manchester Cycle is a closed-road cyclosportive held in Manchester, Trafford and Salford, England, during summer. Participants are invited to ride one, two or four laps of a 13-mile course which starts at the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, heads along the Mancunian Way and into Old Trafford, before returning to the start line. Around 8,000 cyclists took part in the 2013 event. The 2012 13-mile closed-road course began at the City of Manchester Stadium and headed south to Ashton Old Road. There it turned west and onto the Mancunian Way, leaving that road"
"racing ceased on 7 November 1963. The Greater Manchester Athletics Association is the governing body of athletics in Greater Manchester, and organises events and competitions within Greater Manchester. The Greater Manchester Marathon is a long-distance running event along a 26-mile and 385-yard course throughout the borough of Trafford. Professional athletics takes place at the Regional Athletics Arena in Sportcity, which has hosted numerous national trials, Robin Park in Wigan, Longford Park in Stretford (home to Trafford Athletic Club), Woodbank Stadium in Stockport (home to Stockport Harriers) and the Cleavleys Track in Winton (home to Salford Harriers). As of 2008, new"
"2013 event, led by Olympic gold medallst Joanna Rowsell. Actors from the television drama series"" Emmerdale"" also took part. About 2,800 cyclists rode the 52-mile route. Great Manchester Cycle The Great Manchester Cycle is a closed-road cyclosportive held in Manchester, Trafford and Salford, England, during summer. Participants are invited to ride one, two or four laps of a 13-mile course which starts at the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, heads along the Mancunian Way and into Old Trafford, before returning to the start line. Around 8,000 cyclists took part in the 2013 event. The 2012 13-mile closed-road course"
"Great Manchester Run The Great Manchester Run (styled as the ""Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run"" for sponsorship purposes from 2017) is an annual run through Greater Manchester (namely Manchester, Trafford and Salford). It has consisted of a 10k run since it was established in 2003, and a half marathon since 2017. The 10k race is the largest of its type in Europe. Usually held in mid-May, it is the third-largest mass participation running event in the United Kingdom, behind the Great North Run and the London Marathon. It is part of the Great Run series of road races in the UK."
"Greater Manchester Marathon The Greater Manchester Marathon is a long-distance running event in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The most recent marathon was held on 8 April 2018, and finished at Old Trafford Cricket Ground. The race was first held in 2012. It is claimed that the race is the flattest marathon course in the UK, with only of elevation. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 Greater Manchester Marathon times have been declared invalid after the course was found to be 380m too short. The first marathon in the Manchester area was run in 1908 and started and finished at the Saracen's"
"metal sculpture commissioned for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Erected near the City of Manchester Stadium in Eastlands, the sculpture was beset by structural problems and dismantled in 2009. Manchester has a number of squares, plazas and shopping streets many of which are pedestrianised and other streets have Metrolink or bus priority. One of the oldest thoroughfares is Market Street, originally ""Market Stede Lane"". Much of the medieval street pattern around the original market place was cleared in 1970s developments. Ancient streets such as Smithy Door were lost. One ancient survivor is Long Millgate, a winding lane, leading north from the"
"would be fit to compete. Bolt completed the distance in a world best time of 14.35 seconds while Ferguson-McKenzie won the women's race in 16.54 seconds. Key: Great Manchester Run The Great Manchester Run (styled as the ""Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run"" for sponsorship purposes from 2017) is an annual run through Greater Manchester (namely Manchester, Trafford and Salford). It has consisted of a 10k run since it was established in 2003, and a half marathon since 2017. The 10k race is the largest of its type in Europe. Usually held in mid-May, it is the third-largest mass participation running event"
"Sportcity Sportcity in Manchester was used to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It is in east Manchester, a mile from Manchester city centre, and was developed on former industrial land including the site of Bradford Colliery. Sportcity's largest structure, the City of Manchester Stadium, was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It is now home to Manchester City F.C. and is one of the largest football stadiums in England. The Manchester Velodrome is the base for British Cycling and the National Indoor BMX Arena was completed in 2011. SportCity is home to the National Squash Centre and the Manchester Regional"
"in the United Kingdom before the completion of the Lee Valley VeloPark for the 2012 Summer Olympics and is one of the busiest velodromes in the world used by both professional cyclists and members of the public from 8am to 10pm. The venue hosted track cycling for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and forms part of the Sportcity complex, located adjacent to the City of Manchester Stadium, host stadium for the 2002 Games and home of Manchester City F.C. It has also hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1996, 2000 and 2008 and hosts regular meets of the Revolution"
"would attract more shoppers. Deansgate is a long straight street which has provided a venue for sporting events in the city centre. In 2006 A1 Racing cars visited the city to launch A1 Grand Prix, and used Deansgate as part of the route. In August 2011 thousands packed the street as Jenson Button drove a McLaren MP4-23 along Deansgate as part of the Vodafone Vip Live Manchester festival. In 2001 the inaugural Great City Games took place on Deansgate, which featured a 150-metre sprinting track. The event has become an annual fixture on the Great Manchester Run weekend during mid-May."
"1982. The stadium ran as a greyhound track from 1927 until 1982, speedway from 1928-1932 and stock cars from 1972-1982. Notes Bibliography White City, Greater Manchester White City is a retail park on Chester Road in Old Trafford, Stretford, Greater Manchester, England. At the southeast corner of the docks area and southeast of Manchester United's ground, it is the site of the former Manchester Botanic Gardens which hosted the Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. The gateway of the Botanic Gardens still stands at the edge of the retail park. During its history, White City has also been the site of"
"White City Stadium (Manchester) White City Stadium was a greyhound racing and speedway stadium in Greater Manchester. Manchester is synonymous with greyhound racing because Belle Vue Stadium became the first greyhound track in the United Kingdom and Ireland to hold oval course racing in 1926. One year later on 1 November 1927 the remaining eleven acres out of a sixteen-acre plot of land belonging to the Royal Botanical Gardens was sold to Canine Sports Ltd and a stadium was speedily constructed. The stadium in the Old Trafford area was south of the Chester Road tramway and north of Talbot Road."
"Shelly Woods won their respective men's and women's wheelchair races. The addition of The Great City Games brought much attention to the Great Run event. Comprising a number of 150 metres races to be run on the streets near Manchester's Deansgate, Olympic Champions Usain Bolt and Christine Ohuruogu accepted invitations to compete. Other competitors included Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Ivory Williams, British Olympians Marlon Devonish and Donna Fraser, and a number of other British and Jamaican athletes. Bolt suffered minor leg injuries after crashing his car near Kingston, Jamaica, but after cancelling a track meet and resuming training he stated that he"
"White City, Greater Manchester White City is a retail park on Chester Road in Old Trafford, Stretford, Greater Manchester, England. At the southeast corner of the docks area and southeast of Manchester United's ground, it is the site of the former Manchester Botanic Gardens which hosted the Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. The gateway of the Botanic Gardens still stands at the edge of the retail park. During its history, White City has also been the site of an amusement park and a sports stadium for athletics, greyhound and stock car racing. In 1827 the Botanical and Horticultural Society was"
"the various disciplines and distances in track cycling and are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale 3 times in 1996, 2000 and 2008 - no other venue has hosted more. Fallowfield Stadium was an athletics stadium and velodrome in Fallowfield which opened in May 1892 as the home of Manchester Athletic Club after it was forced to move from its home next to Old Trafford Cricket Ground. Fallowfield was most regularly used for cycling by the Manchester Wheelers' Club, who held their annual competition there until 1976. Motorcycle speedway racing has been staged at five venues in Manchester. The first"
"The National Indoor BMX Arena is situated alongside the velodrome. The country's foremost professional cycling team, Team Sky, is also headquartered at the National Cycling Centre. A combined velodrome and athletics stadium, Fallowfield Stadium opened in 1892. The cycling track was 509 yards in circumference and was used for the 1934 British Empire Games. It was demolished in 1994. Cycling in Manchester Cycling for transportation and leisure enjoys popularity in Manchester and the city also plays a major role in British cycle racing. The University of Manchester is home to the Manchester Cycling Lab. Since 2014, Manchester has been upgrading"
"course in the country for competitors. Having a closed city centre course is very rare and lets athletes go right into the heart of Manchester - creating a fantastic atmosphere between them and the spectators."" Those national championships also proved to be an important rehearsal for the Triathlon events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester - which ran over the now tried and tested course. Over 100,000 spectators lined the route to view one of the few free Games events and the atmosphere they created was amazing as Simon Whitfield and Carol Montgomery raced to gold! A legacy of"
"Audenshaw Greyhound Racing and Sports Ground Audenshaw Greyhound Racing and Sports Ground was a trotting track, speedway dirt track and greyhound racing track in Audenshaw, near Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. Before the turn of the 20th century an athletic and coursing ground was constructed east of Manchester near Ashton-under-Lyne on the north side of the Manchester Road and east side of the Ashton Branch Junction Railway Line (part of the London and North Western Railway). This is not to be confused with the Athletics stadium that existed on the south side of the Manchester Road and had been built earlier. A"
"1,500 riders. They were led by Olympic cyclists Rebecca Romero and Lizzie Armitstead. Other celebrities taking part in later events included actors from ""Coronation Stree""t and ""Emmerdale"", while some cyclists raised money for charity. The roads were re-opened by 5:00 pm. Officially launched on 28 February 2012, it was set up by Nova International in partnership with Manchester City Council. The event forms part of a ""Great"" series of sporting events in Manchester, including the Great Manchester Run and the Great Manchester Swim. Sponsors ""The Daily Mirror"" called it a ""huge success"". More than 8,000 cyclists took part in the"
"Great Birmingham 10K The Great Birmingham 10K is an annual road running event in Birmingham City Centre, United Kingdom. Usually held in May, the 6.2mile event takes place in the city centre of Birmingham. Organised by The Great Run Company, the event is part of the Great Run series of events. Starting on Jennens Rd, close to Millennium Point and Thinktank, the route passes Selfridges and the Bullring Shopping Centre before heading out along the Pershore Rd to the furthest turn point at Edgbaston Cricket Ground where the route takes in a lap of the stadium. The first 6km is"
"shaped the sports of association football and cricket, and led to the schism between the two main forms of rugby. The North is also associated with the animal sports of dog racing with whippets, pigeon racing and ferret legging, although these are now far more popular in stereotype than in reality. In recent years, the region has also become a major host of athletics events. Manchester hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which left it a legacy of sporting facilities including the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Aquatics Centre and the National Cycling Centre, headquarters of British Cycling. The Grand Départ"
"in the United Kingdom. The opening and closing ceremonies, the athletic and the rugby sevens events were held at the City of Manchester Stadium, which was purpose built for the Games. Unusually for a large multi-sport event—the second-largest competition by number of countries and athletes participating—the shooting events were held in the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey, some from the main focus of the Games in Manchester. Seventy-two nations competed in 14 individual sports and 3 team sports events. Sporting legacy includes the British Cycling team who inherited the Manchester Velodrome and went on to win eight gold medals"
"for British success in cycling. The velodrome hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships for a record third time in 2008. The National Indoor BMX Arena (2,000 capacity) adjacent to the velodrome opened in 2011. The Manchester Arena hosted the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2008. Manchester Cricket Club evolved into Lancashire County Cricket Club and play at Old Trafford Cricket Ground. Manchester also hosted the World Squash Championships in 2008, and also hosted the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship in July 2010. Recent sporting events hosted by Manchester include the 2013 Ashes series, 2013 Rugby League World Cup and the"
"Manchester Road Race The Manchester Road Race is a 4.748 mile (7.641 km) footrace held annually on Thanksgiving Day in Manchester, Connecticut. Race proceeds are donated each year to Muscular Dystrophy research and about 18 other local charities. Beginning promptly at 10:00am every Thanksgiving Morning, the race attracts athletes of all ages and abilities. First run in 1927, the race regularly attracts accomplished runners from across the United States as well as internationally recognized competitors. The race was first held in 1927 with only twelve runners participating in the race. The race was conceived and promoted by the captain of"
"cricket ground and passes a number of famous Manchester landmarks including the Old Trafford football ground. It works its way through Trafford Park, Stretford, Sale, Timperley, Altrincham and Urmston. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 route was subsequently found to be short of the correct distance. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 Greater Manchester Marathon times have been declared invalid after the course was found to be 380m too short in 2016. UK Athletics will not recognise times from those races. The error was corrected in time for 2016 marathon. The Association of UK Course Measurers (AUKCM) said an accredited measurer had"
"constructed on the opposite side of Trafford Road to the Quays. In 2003, Salford Quays was the venue for the first International Triathlon Union World Cup event to be held in the UK. It has since become an annual event held at the end of July each year, although the 2008 event was cancelled because of a clash with the Beijing Olympics. In September 2010 and May 2011, the site hosted the Great Salford Swim, a mass participation open water swim event. The event has been re-branded as the Great Manchester Swim since 2012. Salford Watersports Centre opened in 2001,"
"the XVII Commonwealth Games, which brought new development to the area including the City of Manchester Stadium, National Cycling Centre (Manchester Velodrome), English Institute of Sport, National Squash Centre, Regional Athletics Arena and Indoor Tennis Centre. Beswick was the biggest township of the ancient parish of Manchester in the Salford Hundred of the county of Lancashire. It became part of the Township of Manchester in 1838, being joined with Ardwick to form a Municipal Ward in the new township. For Poor Law purposes it was added to the Prestwich Poor Law Union, which was constituted by order of the Poor"
"1970) and three League Cup Finals (1977, 1978, 1984). First class sporting facilities were built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, including the City of Manchester Stadium, the National Squash Centre and the Manchester Aquatics Centre. Manchester has competed twice to host the Olympic Games, beaten by Atlanta for 1996 and Sydney for 2000. The National Cycling Centre includes a velodrome, BMX Arena and Mountainbike trials and is the home of British Cycling, UCI ProTeam Team Sky and Sky Track Cycling. The Manchester Velodrome was built as a part of the bid for the 2000 games and has become a catalyst"
"and Five Ways junction, before heading up Broad Street where they will set out on another lap to complete the marathon. Key: Birmingham International Marathon The Birmingham International Marathon is a long-distance running event held in Birmingham, UK. It forms part of the Great Run British Marathon Series. The first event was held on October 15, 2017 on the same day as the existing Great Birmingham Run in the city centre. The event was created by the Great Run Company, organisers of the Great North Run and Great Manchester Run. Starting at Alexander Stadium, the home of British Athletics, the"
"Usain Bolt set a world record for the 150 m straight in 2009 and Tyson Gay ran the 200 m straight in record time in 2010. Notes Bibliography Deansgate Deansgate is a main road (part of the A56) through Manchester city centre, England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile long. Deansgate is one of the city's oldest thoroughfares. In Roman times its route passed close to the Roman fort of Mamucium and led from the River"