The four-time gold medallist introduced in April that 2023 can be his closing yr earlier than retirement.
He mentioned: “I’m excited to run my last ever London race at The Big Half. It will be bittersweet, knowing it will be the last time I race competitively in my hometown but it’s always such a great day and I know the London crowds will be cheering me on, as they always do. I look forward to being back in London and hope to bring home the win one final time.”
Spencer Barden, the top of elite athletes at London Marathon Events, added: “It’s fantastic to have Sir Mo leading the field at this year’s The Big Half. Mo has had a phenomenal career and everyone at London Marathon Events wishes him all the best in his retirement. Before that though, we hope he signs off his racing career in London with another record-breaking win at The Big Half.”
The occasion is a neighborhood race to honour the London Marathon, and is organised by the identical individuals who organise the London Marathon. This yr, The Big Half takes place on Sunday, September 3.
The race is ready to have 15,000 runners collaborating this yr and also will have an elite subject becoming a member of as it is going to be a UK-qualifying occasion for the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships Half Marathon in Latvia later this October.
The Big Half is simpler to enter and seize a spot to run, and because the web site states goals to “celebrate the diversity of the boroughs which the race passes through – Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lewisham and Greenwich”.
The occasion additionally contains the Big Relay, through which groups of 4 full 5k of the route every, and the family-oriented Big Mile, which is free for anybody and sees folks run a mile by Greenwich.
The Big Half enjoys lots of the stunning scenes of the capital that the London Marathon does, however because the title suggests - is simply half the gap.
Runners will line up at the beginning line in Wapping earlier than working by Canary Wharf, Tower Bridge, Rotherhithe and Deptford earlier than lastly making their solution to the end line on the Cutty Sark.
The Big Mile begins and finishes in Greenwich and the Big Relay is similar because the Big Half.
The Big Mile will begin at 2.30 pm. It is free to run and entries are nonetheless open now. Those wanting to affix in can accomplish that by registering totally free on the occasion’s web site here.
Sadly, the entries for each common runners within the greater occasion and charity areas closed final week on Thursday, August 24.
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