Venue: Newcastle to South Shields Date: Sun, 5 October
Coverage: Live on BBC One 0930-1330 BST, highlights on BBC Two 1720-1745, and on the BBC Sport website
GREAT NORTH MILES
Venue: Newcastle and Gateshead Quaysides Date: Sat, 4 October
Coverage: Live on BBC One 1300-1410 BST and on BBC Sport website,

Dobriskey will be hoping to round off the best year of her career to date

Lisa Dobriskey will lead the British challenge as she looks to defend her Great North Run Mile title and round off the best year of her career so far.

The Kent runner narrowly missed out on Olympic 1500m bronze this summer before winning the New York Fifth Avenue road mile on Sunday in impressive fashion.

She will be joined by Stephanie Twell in the women's race, with Mo Farah running in the men's on 4 October.

Olympic 5,000m and 10km gold medallist Kenenisa Bekele will run the two miles.

Bekele will be joined in the race by Kenyan rival Eliud Kipchoge and Kenyan junior Levi Matebo, who finished second behind the great Ethiopian star over 3,000m at last month's Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead.

Helen Clitheroe and Emily Pidgeon head the British challenge in that race.

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Dobriskey, meanwhile, is gearing herself up for one final big effort in the north east next week, although she will face a much tougher field than she did a year ago.

The 24-year-old, who also won the 1500m at last month's Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead, will face a field headed by Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei and she said: "I've got just a tiny bit more to go.

"Just one more race and then I'm going to have a couple of weeks off!"