Business Challenge winners revealed as 30 teams battle it out for best time
CONGRATULATIONS to University of Birmingham, JS Wright & Co and Haines Watt Birmingham – the overall winners of the PKF Cooper Parry Business Challenge at the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham 10K.
The seven-strong team from the University of Birmingham scooped the trophy for the Large Business section with their four fastest runners finishing the race in a collective time of two hours, 40 minutes and 39 seconds.
JS Wright & Co won the Medium Business section with a collective time for their four fastest of 3:25:01 and Haines Watt Birmingham taking the honours for Small Business with a winning time of 3:12:45.
Thirty teams – featuring 400 runners of all abilities took part in the PKF Cooper Parry Business Challenge at the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham 10K – making Sunday’s race the 10K Business Challenge the biggest to date. Each company with a team of 12 or more employees received an engraved plaque in the name of the fastest runner.
The University of Birmingham had a separate team with almost 400 runners which ran separately to the Business Challenge with their own start wave.
Ade Cheatham, chief executive of PKF Cooper Parry, sponsor of this year’s Great Birmingham 10k Business Challenge, said: “Congratulations to all the businesses and teams that took part in the race and to the organisers for making it such a great event.
“Events such as this are a fantastic way of bringing businesses and the local community together and it was great to see the streets lined with spectators, cheering on the runners as they raced for home and the glory of being crowned this year’s winner.”
Almost 8,000 took part in Sunday’s Great Birmingham 10k.
The event was billed as a good way to train for the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run half marathon or the inaugural Birmingham International Marathon on Sunday, October 15.
Arcadis is sponsoring the Business Challenge at the half marathon.
Sign up for the next Business Challenge: It’s easy to enter. All you have to do is head to the website at www.greatrun.org/great-birmingham-run/birminghambusiness