Eisa and Barega secure Ethiopian double at Great Manchester Run

There are not many road records still standing from 2007, but one has just survived for another 12 months.

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Micah Kogo’s men’s course record of 27:21 from that year’s Great Manchester Run - then the seventh quickest in history but now just the 135th — is still on the books thanks to a considerable head wind in the ‘back’ part of this course starting and ending in Manchester city centre.

It no doubt played a part in Selemon Barega’s winning time of 27:49, though the difficult element didn’t seem to bother emerging Ethiopian star Medina Eisa, who triumphed with impressive negative splits in the women’s race in 30:42.