League winners to ring the Great Scottish Run starting bell

4 Oct 2024

Glasgow Warriors captain Kyle Steyn, and league-winning fly-half Duncan Weir will ring the starting bell for Glasgow Warriors colleagues, alongside 30,000 other runners, at this weekend's Great Scottish Run.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 04: Kyle Steyn with the United Rugby Championship trophy in George Square during a Glasgow Warriors civic reception at the Glasgow City Chambers, on September 04, 2024, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

It’s an incredible weekend of running on Saturday and Sunday (10 and 11 October) as the AJ Bell Great Scottish Run 2024 returns to Glasgow in what will be the biggest running event in Scotland yet. Over 30,000 people will run through the streets of Glasgow for some very personal causes.

Amongst the runners will be 16 Glasgow Warriors staff and coaches running the 10K or half marathon for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

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On Saturday 1250 kids will participate in the sell-out Super Saturday’s ‘Finding Your Superpower’ themed Junior and Mini events, with many dressed in their favourite SUPER hero costumes. There will be lots of budding future elite runners powering through the streets too, representing their running clubs from around Scotland.

Alongside Glasgow’s big crowd energy, stars from the BBC’s hit show Gladiators, Sabre (Sheli McCoy) and Apollo (Alex Gray) will lead the warmup and countdown on Super Saturday. They will also be joined by double Olympian, and 2010 European 10,000m silver medallist, Chris Thompson, who will be providing coaching commentary to the kids before he takes on one of his last ever competitive races in Sunday’s 10K.

At Sunday’s main event, 30,000 runners will enjoy build up entertainment from our friends at Heart Radio hosts Des Clarke & Jennifer Reoch and STV weather presenter Sean Batty, before crossing the iconic George Square start line where a series of famous faces will be on the starters podium, including Glasgow Warriors’ Duncan Weir & Kyle Steyn, ringing the bell to mark the start of the Wheelchair, 10K and Half Marathon waves. Also setting the pace for runners and looking to retain his winning title will be elite athlete Callum Hawkins, who will be running in the Half Marathon, and Sean Frame in the Wheelchair race.

Glasgow Warriors are running on Sunday as part of the season-wide Fighting for our Families campaign, that will raise £85,000 for the Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity across 2024/25.

You can donate to that campaign here.