Winner of the 2011 Manx Mountain Marathon Chris Thompson leads runner-up and Chris Birchall, in mist and rain at North Barrule summit (above) and follws him through theriver at Injebreck (below) (Both ML)
Paul Sykes continued his outstanding form taking 6th place and best local in the Manx Mountain Marathon (ML)
Matt Gilbert (above) won the Half Marathon by a single second from Andrew Davies (below)r (ML)
Top local and third in the half - Mark Preston (ML)
Rob Sellors was 12th in the Manx Mountain Marathon breaking 6 hours just six days after breaking 3 hours in the London Marathon (ML)
Memories from Paul Thompson's historic seven wins in the Manx Mountain Marathon
No photos from 2004 and 2006 but the above selection includes his wins from 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 - plus 2007 when Lloyd Taggart won (All photos ML)
Coverage of the amazing range of events that we stage on the Isle of Man every Easter has now finished. It fails to recognise every outstanding effort by visiting or local athletes, friends and strangers or the hundreds of officials who made it possible. But it does attempt to highlight a few. Murray Lambden 27 April 2011
