Participants turned out in force as Newcastle's festival of running was back in action yesterday after being postponed at the last minute last year due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
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NewRun race director Paul Humphreys reported around 2200 entrants across five events, saying numbers were the best since 2014.
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Maitland twins Liam and Monty Dixon could barely be separated in the race for the Newcastle Herald Hill2Harbour 10-kilometre title with the former winning in 33 minutes and 51 seconds to edge out his brother by one second. Lauren Mewing won the women's 10km in 42:43 from Renee Compton (43:58) in second.
![LEAD ROLE: Maitland twins Liam (1469) and Monty Dixon (1468) set the pace in a large Hill2Harbour 10-kilometre field on Sunday and fought it out for first place. Picture: Lee Pigott LEAD ROLE: Maitland twins Liam (1469) and Monty Dixon (1468) set the pace in a large Hill2Harbour 10-kilometre field on Sunday and fought it out for first place. Picture: Lee Pigott](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/ikLFZZUcNnvgygfqz78ZET/b638f6ac-e679-40b5-a045-fa4289c74f0b.jpg/r1028_0_4169_2159_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Belmont's Hamish Longmuir won the men's half marathon (21.1km) in one hour, 13 minutes and 59 seconds. Vlad Shatrov was second in 1:16.40. Jessica Purbrick was the women's half marathon winner in 1:24.50.
![Hamish Longmuir on his way to victory in the NewRun half marathon on Sunday. Picture: Lee Pigott Hamish Longmuir on his way to victory in the NewRun half marathon on Sunday. Picture: Lee Pigott](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/ikLFZZUcNnvgygfqz78ZET/18bbe039-2cdb-4994-a053-e146a99a90b2.jpg/r0_0_3646_2050_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
![Jessica Purbrick was the women's half marathon winner at NewRun on Sunday. Picture: Lee Pigott Jessica Purbrick was the women's half marathon winner at NewRun on Sunday. Picture: Lee Pigott](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/ikLFZZUcNnvgygfqz78ZET/03f49ef8-eb3b-4fea-974c-56c4d5e247b7.jpg/r0_0_4112_2312_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Devon Deppler won the men's marathon (42.2km) in 2:51.03 and the women's winner was Michelle Mcadam in 3:02.17.
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