The first edition of the European Running Championship will take place in Brussels-Leuven from April 12 to 13, 2025. For the first time in a European athletics championship, the masses will join the elites in the departure line.
A team of 13 athletes will represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & Ni) in these championships through the Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K Events.
The championships will begin with the Half Marathon on Saturday. Hannah Irwin (Gavin Pavey, Cambridge and Coleridge) will be the only representative of the GB and Ni team. Natasha Phillips (Vince Wilson, Dundee Hawkhill) and Ben Connor (Derby) have retired since they were selected for the half marathon.
On Sunday morning he will begin with the 10K event, which will see the medalist of the Olympic Triathlon of Paris, Beth Potter (Shaftesbury Barnet), use the GB & vest or again; His last departure on the track was in the London World Championship in 2017. He is one of the six women looking to compete in Leuven.
Phoebe Anderson (Wayne Vinton, Herne Hill), the European Cross Country champion of 2024 U23, will join her together with Sarah Astin (Andrew Hobdell, Belgrave), who assured the best personal on this distance in Valencia at the beginning of the year.
After the success in the LEEDS stage of the United Kingdom Cross Challenge, Amelia Quirk (Mick Woods, Bracknell AC) will seek to repeat the GB vest on the banks along with the Welsh Verity Ockenden (Swansea) and Jenny Nesbitt (Dave Long, Pontypr) duo, the women’s team, Pontypr.
Nesbitt was initially selected for the half marathon earlier this year, but has chosen to compete in the 10K races.
In the 10K male event, Rory Leonard (Andy, Hobdell, Morph), who British the British 10k record of men earlier this year in Valencia, is one of the four athletes selected for the male team. Throughout him he is a European Bronze partner of the Cross Country 2024 Ellis Cross (Andrew Hobdell, Aldershot, Farnham & District).
Alfie Manthorpe (John Wood, Hallalashire) and Charles Wheeler (MK Distence Project) ran the best personal points in Valencia at the beginning of the year and will be on the starting line for the GB and Ni team.
The marathon will begin shortly after 10k, with George James (Rob Russell, Dorking & Mole Valley) and Georgina Schwieening (Cambridge Runners) opening his season.
You can see the action through the European athletic media channel here.
The complete team for GB & or for the European Road Running Championships 2025;
GB and 10K equipment (selected in March 2025)
Women
Pheobe Anderson (Wayne Vinton, Herne Hill)
Sarah Astin (Andrew Hobdell, Belgrave)
Jenny Nesbitt (Dave Long, Pontypridd)
Verity Olden (Chris Thompson, Swansea)
Beth Potter (Shaftesbury Barnet)
Amelia Quirk (Mick Woods, Bracknell AC)
Men
Ellis Cross (Andrew Hobdell, Aldershot, Farnham & District)
Rory Leonard (Andy Hobdell, Morpeth)
Alfie Manthorpe (John Wood, Hallalashire)
Charles Wheeler (MK distance project)
GB equipment and for half a marathon (Selected February 2025)
Women
Hannah Irwin (Gavin Pavey, Cambridge and Coleridge)
GB and marathon equipment (Selected in December 2024)
Women
Georgina Schwiening (Cambridge runners)
Men
George James (Rob Russell, Dorking & Mole Valley)
