The Great Run Company

About Us

The Great Run Company specialise in the development, design and organisation of the biggest and best televised mass participation sporting events across the country. This includes the Great Run Series, most notably the Great North Run, the world’s largest half marathon. Other events within our portfolio include the Great Swim Series across 5 different venues, the Great City Games and the Go Run for Fun campaign.

Our in-house production company, FilmNova, produce large scale live outside broadcasts and recorded highlights of these events for UK and International broadcasters. In addition to our Great Run and Swim series programmes, we also produce sports coverage and programming for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky Sports and RTÉ.

2016 represents an exciting year for FilmNova comprising seven live programmes for BBC, and two for Channel 5. In addition FillmNova were the Host Broadcaster at the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff in March and will also produce open water swimming programmes for Channel 4.