The Liverpool Half Marathon is a British annual road running event held on the streets of
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
. It has previously been sponsored by Vitality and
Mizuno Corporation
() is a Japanese sports equipment and sportswear company, founded in Osaka in 1906 by Rihachi Mizuno. Today, Mizuno is a global corporation which makes a wide variety of sports equipment and sportswear for table tennis, boxing, badminton, go ...
.
Overview
The course generally starts in
the city centre, then goes up Parliament Street and turns south towards
Sefton Park
Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England. The park is in a conservation district of the same name, It is the largest public park in Liverpool and the Liverpool City Region. Suburbs neighbouring the park include Toxteth, Aigb ...
and Otterspool before proceeding north along the waterfront back towards the centre.
In 2014, the Liverpool Half Marathon was named as one of the eight events in the Vitality Run Series alongside the
Brighton Half Marathon,
Reading Half Marathon
The Reading Half Marathon (currently known as the Unleashed Performance Reading Half Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is a half marathon road running event held on the streets of the English town of Reading, first held in 1983. The race is norm ...
, Oxford Half Marathon,
Bath Half Marathon, North London Half Marathon,
Hackney Half Marathon and British 10k London Run.
From 2016 onwards, the event featured a 10-mile race running along a similar route.
Liverpool 10 Miler
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Past winners
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References
Notes
External links
Official website
{{European half marathons
Sports competitions in Liverpool
Half marathons in the United Kingdom
Recurring sporting events established in 1994