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Daily Mirror UK

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September 09, 2025

Great North Run medals show wrong city & river

- BY DAVE HIGGENS

Tyne & Wear sorry

BLUNDERING organisers of the Great North Run put a map of Sunderland on thousands of medals and T-shirts instead of Tyneside.

More than 60,000 people ran in Sunday's 13.1-mile race from Newcastle to South Shields.

But Tyneside loyalists told of their shock that the map was of the River Wear in the rival city.

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