Buze Diriba improves her PB by more than three minutes while 2016 Boston champion Lemi Berhanu wins a thrilling men’s race.

The British international opens up about being diagnosed as bipolar which has allowed him to approach his sport with a fresh sense of perspective.

Alan Turing winning a club three miles title, a 13-year-old Tessa Sanderson clearing 1.40m and a teenage Jeffrey Archer sprinting for Somerset – our archive reveals the earliest mentions of some very famous names.

Former Olympic sprinter on the illness that has confined her to bed five years after Tokyo, and why she is speaking out despite the risk to her health.

For 35 years, the Great South Run has attracted world champions, Olympic medallists, marathon legends and emerging stars. What began as an ambitious addition to the British road running calendar has developed into one of the sport's most recognisable events, with the unique combination of historic dockyards, naval heritage and exposed coastal roads producing a race unlike any other.