The temperature at race start was a chilly 5C, warming to 15C at midday, but much warmer in the cloudless sunshine with thousands lining the route. In all, 7426 finished the race .

Mongolian Ser-od Ba-otochir claimed the inaugural Brighton Marathon title in 2:19:05, Second was Medway's Michael Coleman in a time of 2:24:54, local boy Chris Thomson of Brighton and Hove AC coming third in 2:29:54.

Our sole representivie in this race was Martin Broomfield, who did well to complete the 26.2 miles in 5 hrs 33 minutes