With 2,696 finishers in 3:44:00, the fourth edition of Jane Tomlinson's Run For All Larking Gowen Ipswich Half Marathon on Sunday, 21 September 2025, was the biggest and best race thus far.

Starting and finishing at Portman Road Stadium – home of Ipswich Town FC – runners head down Duke Street, through Ipswich Waterfront, and along Cliff Lane. Continuing around the River Orwell, the course heads to Wherstead Road and back along Grafton Way before the big finish at the imposing 30,300-capacity football stadium.

The Larking Gowen Ipswich Half Marathon has joined the Jane Tomlinson Run For All family, which includes the Lincoln Half Marathon (5 October), Gear 10K Kings Lynn (3 May), and many more events – click here for details.

Competitor numbers at Ipswich have only gone one way since 2022, when 822 finished in the county town of Suffolk. This increased to 1,302 in 2023 and 2,018 last year. This year saw 500 through the finish line in 1:43:19; 1,000 were home in 1:54:33; 1,500 finished in 2:01:42, and 2,000 completed the course in 2:17:30.

This year's champion was 2:24:26 marathon runner Cooper Berry, of Best Athletics, in a personal best 1:08:58. Berry set his marathon PB in Berlin in 2022. The winner had almost four minutes to spare as Robert Sesemann (Kent AC, 1:12:38) and under-20 junior Osman Adam (Ipswich Jaffa AC, 1:15:06) were runners-up – the latter on his half-marathon debut.

The outstanding Holly Archer (Cambridge & Coleridge AC, 1:15:55) dominated the women's race, finishing fifth overall! Archer's PB is 1:12:47, achieved in 2022 at the Copenhagen Half Marathon. Kat Parnell (Ipswich Triathlon Club, 1:24:54) and W35 Katie King (St Edmund Pacers, 1:25:15) completed the female podium.

Jane Tomlinson's Run For All events are part of the lasting legacy of the late amateur athlete and fundraiser Jane Tomlinson CBE. Jane, from Leeds, made headlines around the world by taking part in a series of incredible endurance events despite being diagnosed with an incurable cancer.

Full results and previous reports are at the runABC South race listing here.

Photos courtesy of Run For All/Ipswich Half Marathon on Facebook