QUAYSIDE 5K
WEDNESDAY 6TH AUGUST 2025
Run on a super fast, out-back course, with raucous atmosphere, scorches along the Newcastle-Gateshead Quayside. This course is firmly established as the fastest 5k race in the North and course produced the 2nd fastest winning time in the UK in 2023.
Race Info
Top Flight Quayside 5k– Wednesday 6th August 2025
Address: Baltic Square, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
Event Times – 19.00pm
Top Flight Series & Quayside 5k Prize Structure The winner of the Quayside 5k receives 25 points, the second-place finisher 18 points, with 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 points for 3-10th towards their Top Flight Races series points total.
Time-based CASH prizes for Men and Women’s races (Gun Time Only) are as follows:
Race Winner £200 (Any time)
All performances under qualifying time ofSub 14m15 (Men) 15m45 (Women) 1st £250, 2nd £200, 3rd £175, 4th £150, 5th £125, 6th £100, 7th £75, 8th £50 in addition to race win = £450 total
Course Record Bonus £200
*Gun-Time performance must be better than (including new events)
Men – Sub 14:00 (5k) 29m30 (10k) 65:00 (HM) Women – Sub 15:30 (5k) 32m45 (10k) 70:30 (HM)
13:46 – Scott Beattie (2023) 15:42 – Lily Partridge (2024)
UK Leading Time £200
RunThrough Record* £500
13m46 Scott Beattie (Quayside 5k 2023) / 15m30 Amy Eloise Neale (Aintree May 2024)
Free Top Flight Races Entry
Men: Sub 16:00 (5k) 33:30 (10k) 72:00 (HM)
Women: Sub 17:30 (5k) 36:45 (10k) 77:30 (HM)