In the Christmas classic five-mile race at Battersea Park sponsored by Soar, a new face breaks the course record previously held by Mahamed Mahamed since 2021.
Commentary by Matt Seddon.
1 Abdinasir Elmi 23:10
2 Cameron Allan 23:31
3 Andrew Penney 23:32
4 Samuel Gebreselassie 23:35
5 Ben Alcock 23:38
6 Ben Bradley 23:40
7 Andrew Fyfe 23:43
8 Thomas Butler 23:48
9 Jonathan Collier 23:53
10 Daniel Mulryan 24:18
11 Alex Milne 24:21
12 Harry Brodie 24:23
13 Brandon Dewar 24:34
14 James Hancock 24:37
15 Archie Parkinson 24:43
16 Michael Harrison 24:45
17 Lewis Laylee 24:48
18 Bob Sporle 24:48
19 Rian Mccawley 24:48
20 Cameron Walker-Powell 24:51
21 Aiden Lennan 24:54
22 Daniel Lewis 24:58
23 Nathan Jones 24:59
24 Jack Hillier 25:00
25 Thomas Beedell 25:01
26 Ben Lines 25:01
27 Andrew Clarke 25:02
28 Caleb O’neill 25:03
29 Chander Dhillon 25:03
30 Callum O’neill 25:07
31 Ethan Esteban-Protheroe 25:07
32 Daniel Studley 25:13
33 George Withers 25:18
34 Nick Acfield 25:19
35 Fabien Whitelock 25:19
36 Chris Hudson 25:20
37 Isaac Mould 25:21
38 Jacob Atwal 25:24
39 Alfred Yabsley 25:26
40 Rob Wilson 25:29
41 Matt Woodward 25:37
42 Stephen Strange 25:37
43 Tom Henson 25:39
44 George Morris 25:42
45 Tom Drayton 25:52
46 Josh Hampson Wallace 25:54
47 Matthew Williams 25:54
48 Lucas Mansell 25:57
49 Jack Parslow 25:57
50 Alex Jackson 25:58
51 Toby Smith 25:59
52 Daniel Paston 26:01
53 Dominic Bolt 26:02
54 Joe Elliott 26:04
55 Zared Arasaretnam-Hale 26:05
56 Chad Lambert 26:07
57 Ben Clarke 26:11
58 Jim Gordon 26:12
59 Callum Stewart 26:14
60 Jamie Short 26:19
61 Dylan Mitchard 26:24
62 Dave Hunt 26:27
63 Barnaby Day 26:32
64 Daniel St Martin 26:38
65 Ben Prior 26:39
66 Oliver Knowles 26:40
67 Hector Revill 26:44
68 Stefano Federici 26:44
69 Nick Beer 26:45
70 Joshua Edwards 26:45
71 Charlie Wood 26:47
72 Jake Herrera 26:49
73 Steve Woolley 26:51
74 Luca Vilimanovic 26:52
75 Matt Cooper 26:53
76 Ben Halstead 26:54
77 George Mallinson 26:55
78 Naomi Taschimowitz 26:57
79 Alexander Prinsep 27:01
80 Jack Gunning 27:01
81 Alex Burns 27:03
82 Russell Drummond 27:03
83 Brandon Christopher Liau 27:04
84 Kate Estlea-Morris 27:07
85 Thomas Rowley 27:09
86 Conor Kissane-Wood 27:10
87 Niall Gilchrist 27:10
88 Isaac Fell 27:13
89 James Jewell 27:13
90 Simon Fell 27:14
91 Will Coates 27:17
92 James Lawler 27:17
93 Tobias Fletcher 27:18
94 Matthew Grant 27:19
95 Tom Cotton 27:20
96 Matt Pinney 27:22
97 Alex Richardson 27:28
98 Thomas Bishton 27:29
99 Ryan Willmott 27:30
100 Ruby Carter 27:31
Full results: https://results.racetimingsolutions.co.uk/results.aspx?CId=16269&RId=22008&EId=3&dt=0
Race video by Steve Gardner and Angus Butler.
5 Comments
This is how all athletics should be commentated on. Always enjoy FNUL.
What a runner and again on the bike you should be employed by the tv fantastic job 👏
Imagine what Jakob , Jimmy Gressier , Julien Wanders etc would run the 5 mile course in.This is elite club running but a dot on the landscape in elite world level running.Great event😎
Fair play on the commentary – great stuff
How old is Elmi? Weird when a runner comes out of nowhere. Great vid and job on the bike!