O’Sullivan and Radcliffe head to head in Manchester

IRELAND’S Olympic 5,000m silver medallist, Sonia O’Sullivan, goes head to head with Paula Radcliffe for today’s inaugural Great Manchester Run.

The organisers of the event have pulled off a coup in attracting some of the top names in women’s long distance events with African stars Derartu Tulu and Berhane Adere among the 10,000 entries that will take part in the 10 kilometre road race.

Radcliffe holds the current record for the distance with the 30:21 she ran in San Juan at the end of February. Others in the field include the Russian pair of Yelena Burykina and Galina Aleksandrova.