Mo Farah high fives crowdpublished at 12:02 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Huge crowds cheered Mo Farah home to his six successive Great North Run win.
After crossing the finishing line he ran back along the course high fiving people.
Summary
Mo Farah wins record sixth successive Great North Run
Kenyan Brigid Kosgei beats women's course record
David Weir wins men's wheelchair race for eighth time
Jade Jones-Hall seals a British double by winning the women's wheelchair race
Tens of thousands took part in main race
Mo Farah high fives crowdpublished at 12:02 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Full elite race resultspublished at 11:56 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Here are the full results for the women's, men's and wheelchair elite races.
Watch Mo Farah win sixth Great North Runpublished at 11:47 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
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End of twitter postMo Farah wins Great North Run men's racepublished at 11:41 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
BreakingMo Farah wins the elite men's race in the Great North Run for a record sixth successive time.
Image source, NNPMore fantastic Great North Run costumespublished at 11:35 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Here are some more of the amazing costumes people are wearing for today's run.
Watch Brigid Kosgei breaking course recordpublished at 11:29 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
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End of twitter postBrigid Kosgei wins and breaks half marathon recordpublished at 11:24 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
BreakingBrigid Kosgei wins the women's race and breaks the Great North Run women's course record as well as breaking the world half marathon record.
Image source, NNPWatch David Weir winning men's wheelchair racepublished at 11:17 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
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End of twitter post'A tear in the eye'published at 11:13 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Sunderland-born BBC 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne sums up what many will be feeling this morning.
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End of twitter postJade Jones-Hall wins women's wheelchair racepublished at 11:12 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
BreakingBritain's Jade Jones-Hall has won the women's elite wheelchair race
Image source, PA MediaThousands stream across Tyne Bridgepublished at 11:03 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
The favourite Great North moment for many runners is crossing the Tyne Bridge.
Here is a view of a sea of people running over the famous Grade II* listed structure this morning.
David Weir wins men's wheelchair racepublished at 10:59 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
BreakingDavid Weir has won the men's wheelchair race.
The Briton beat Canadian Brent Lakatos to the finishing line in South Shields.
Image source, NNPRunner's view of the startpublished at 10:53 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
BBC Look North reporter Jonathan Swingler is running the race and here was his view from the start pen where he said it was feeling warm.
Runners stretching back along Newcastle central motorwaypublished at 10:51 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Alison Freeman
BBC Look NorthBBC reporter Alison Freeman says this is her favourite view of the Great North Run.
Runners high fiving starterspublished at 10:49 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
The sight of thousands of runners streaming across the start line is fantastic.
Plenty of people are taking part in the Great North Run tradition of high fiving the starters - Lionesses stars Jill Scott and Steph Houghton and Durham and England cricketer Mark Wood.
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End of twitter postElite men and main races startpublished at 10:43 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Here we go - the elite men's race and the main field of thousands of Great North runners are on their way.
Mo Farah is aiming for his sixth successive run. Fellow Briton Callum Hawkins, Ethiopian Tamarit Tola and Belgian Bashir Abdi are likely to be Farah's main rivals.
Good luck everyone. Have a great run.
Two out in front in wheelchair racepublished at 10:37 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
In the wheelchair race Britain's David Weir and Canada's Brent Lakatos are out in front at the moment.
Some fantastic outfits out therepublished at 10:30 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
One of the highlights of the Great North Run is the amazing outfits with people really going to town.
Here are The Simpsons - they're all from the Nestle biscuit factory in York and running for Clic Sergeant.
These giraffes look great - they're running to support The Samaritans and Crohns & Colitis UK.
Belinda and Joanne are running for the Royal British Legion.
They say: "We've only just got our costumes so we've done no training in them."
Good luck ladies!
Pace in women's race is 'hot'published at 10:26 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
Steve Cram
BBC Sport athletics commentatorSteve Cram describes the early pace in the elite women's race as "hot".
Brigid Kosgei is in the lead as they cross the Tyne Bridge.
Elite women's race under waypublished at 10:21 British Summer Time 8 September 2019
The elite women have set off.
Kenyan Mary Keitany will look to win her fourth women's race since 2014.
Briton Charlotte Purdue, who will be competing in the marathon events at the World Championships, is also in the field as is London Marathon winner Brigid Kosgei, who finished second to Vivian Cheruiyot in 2018.
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