Great North Run 2019: As it happened

That's the end of our live updates from the Great North Run 2019. Congratulations to everyone who took part.

A round-up of today's key moments:

• Mo Farah won a record sixth successive Great North Run
• Kenyan Brigid Kosgei set a new half marathon world record to take the women's race in 1:04:28
• David Weir won his eighth wheelchair title
• Jade Jones-Hall made it a British double in the women's wheelchair race
• Thousands of runners took part in the main race
• Sunderland's Aly Dixon breaks the record for the fastest superhero to run a half-marathon

Hope you all enjoy a well-earned rest and we'll see you next year!

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Here is the scene at the start line of the clothes left behind by runners when they've all headed off.

They are all collected up and given to charity

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Diane Jones writes: "Good luck to Team McAdam running today for Prostrate cancer.

"It’s Les’ first half marathon after having surgery to remove his prostrate. Cancer didn’t bring him to his knees it brought him to his feet."

Andrew Lyon writes: "I’m sitting watching the Great North Run with my grandfather who’s birthday it is today - happy 71st birthday to Ian Burn from South Shields.

"We watch it every year either on TV or down on The Nook corner cheering the runners on."

A carer is taking on the Great North Run with a woman she looks after to raise money for a Gosforth hospice.

Donna, 23 from North Tyneside, has been coming to St Oswald’s for more than 10 years.

She has pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, which is a rare disease and currently affects roughly 15 people in the UK.

The average life expectancy for people with the brain disease is seven to 10 years old, so currently is one of the oldest people in the world living with it.

Alison Chan, a family friend and Donna’s carer on a Sunday, has done the Great North Run before, and this year has offered to take Donna on the 13-mile route with her daughter Jenny, who is participating for the first time.

Donna’s mum and full time carer, Fiona, said:

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Today's Great North Run followed a Saturday of events involving thousands of people.

About 9,000 youngsters took part in the Mini and Junior Great North Runs, with a Great North 5k also staged.

Elites were in attendance for the Great North City games, held in Stockton-On-Tees for the first time.

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Here are some of the stories of people running today.

Allasa tweets: "My nephew Ricky Rueter and his wife, Stacey, who are running the GNR today. Ricky for Brain Tumour Research and Stacey in aid of Parkinson’s."

Julia Taylor tweets: "Good luck to Mon and Jo from Manchester running their first half marathon for Cystic Fibrosis today."

Orla tweets: "Sonic and Matt from Northern Ireland you got this."

The parents of a newborn girl whose life was saved after her heart rate rose to 320 beats per minute are doing today's run to raise money for two charities which helped them.

Holly was born on 19 December and was diagnosed with viral meningitis on Boxing Day and discharged from hospital 48 hours later.

On New Year's Eve Mrs Hutchinson, who is a nurse, saw Holly's condition had deteriorated and took her to Sunderland Royal Hospital where her heart rate climbed because of an infection.

Among the treatment to try to shock her heart into a regular rhythm was dunking her head into a bucket of ice cold water.

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When that didn't work she was taken to Newcastle's Freeman Hospital where she was given powerful drugs and, shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, the 12-day-old baby stabilised.

She was then in hospital for 10 days before being discharged to her home in Gateshead.

Mrs Hutchinson and her husband Ian are raising money for the Sick Children's Trust and the Children's Heart Unit Fund.

Mr Hutchinson said training for the Great North Run had been tough.

"But if Holly can hold on with a heartbeat of 320, a half marathon should be pretty simple right?" he said.

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Mo Farah has become the first athlete to win six successive Great North Runs.

But he remembers a time when running the race at all was just a kid's dream.

"I just love keep coming back and having the crowd and North East people get really behind you, and support you," he says.

"I never forget once when I was competing as a junior doing the mile - I didn't even win the mile and I said to Brendan, 'I'm going to do the big race'.

"I called it the big race because it was always on a Sunday and so many people taking part.

"And I said I'm going to win that race one day, and cross that bridge first."

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Darren "Dibsy" McClintock, is doing the Great North Run after losing half his body weight.

The 28-year-old from Middlesbrough was more than 40st 4lb (256kg) but has lost 19 stone (121kg) in less than a year.

Here are some of the stories of people running today.

Jayne Mason, from Birmingham, is running more than 11 years after she was diagnosed with accute myleid leukemia.

Her father David Laurence writes: "Thankfully she is in remission following the fantastic health care she received during her lengthy stay at North Tees Hospital, Stockton."

Chris Kelly is running his first Great North Run.

His dad Rob Kelly wrote: "Still in his early 30s Chris underwent two significant hip operations about three years ago and due to problems in recovery took up a vegan diet and thereafter started running as part of his rehabilitation and recovery regime."

He did a 100k ultra run in Suffolk last month, knocking 10 minutes off the course record. Chris and his wife Kelly are running to raise money for The Samaritans.

Big Pink Dress is taking part in this year's race despite suffering a heart scare.

Colin Burgin-Plews is well-known in the north-east of England and has raised thousands of pounds for charity.

In July he was taken to hospital suffering chest pains and said he wouldn't be taking part in this year's race - but here he is on the start line earlier with BBC Newcastle's Anna Foster and Alfie Joey and he looks amazing.

Give him a cheer when you see him on the course.

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Sunderland runner Aly Dixon broke the record for the fastest superhero to run a half-marathon.

She ran dressed as Wonder Woman and here she is just after crossing the finishing line looking remarkably relaxed.

She recently broke the world record to win the 50km World Championships in Romania.

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