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2026 Great Knaresborough Bed Race Teams Running Order

3 June 2026

The Great Knaresborough Bed Race will be held Saturday 13 June 2026.

This year’s Great Knaresborough Bed Race will be a celebration of six decades from its first staging in 1966. To commemorate the fact, the 2026 theme harks back to ‘The Swinging Sixties’.

This race will be held on 13 June, as ever the second Saturday in the month.

The route follows a similar course to that in 1966, except for what was once the hurtle down the cobbles of Water Bag Bank. This was replaced by the almost equally steep, but easier to control descent of the High Street and Bond End.

Starting No.

Bed Name

Category

1

GH Brooks Mens

Mf

2

Crag Rats

Mf

3

Kings of the Castle

Mf

4

Welly Wheelers

Mf

5

6

Half Moon

Riverside Runners

Mf

Mf

7

HACS 01

Mf

8

Parkrunners

Xf

9

St John Fisher Harrogate

Mf

10

Squashed Hearts

Ff

11

Guardian Alarms

Mf

12

Knaresborough Town AFC

Mfn

13

Knaresborough Town Over 30s

Mfn

14

Live For Today – Dream Team

JMf

15

Knaresborough RUFC

Mf

16

The Night Caps

Mf

17

Hymas Hobblers (Old Guys!)

Mf

18

Friends of Alfie Martin

Mfn

19

Ripon Runners ladies

Ffc

20

Raworths Solicitors

Xf

21

Monkton Meanderers

Xf

22

Wetherby Runners

Mfc

23

Welly Wheelettes

Ff

24

Knaresborough Striders Ladies Team

Ffc

25

Nidd Valley Bees

Mfnc

26

Black Wolf Fitness

Mfn

27

1st Knaresborough (Castle) Scouts

Mf

28

Nidd Valley Mixed

Xfc

29

Knaresborough Striders Mixed Bed 2

Xfc

30

King James’s Staff

Mf

31

Sherburn Runners

Mfnc

32

G H Brooks counter crew

Mf

33

HG Consulting Engineers

Me

34

DMfitness

Xe

35

Harrogate Symphony Orchestra

Xe

36

Ripon Runners social team

Xfc

37

Harrogate District Swimming Club

JXf

38

Junior Runaways

JMfn

39

Up North Down Under

Mfn

40

Team YNYCA

Xfn

41

The Wonderers

Me

42

Saint Michael’s Hospice

Xe

43

KJS Sixth Form 2026

Mfn

44

The Rocket Men

Me

45

Aspin Avengers

Xe

46

Fountains Abbey and Brimham Rocks

Me

47

Menwith Hill

Xf

48

Knaresborough Silver Band

Me

49

HACS 02

Me

50

Knaresborough St John’s Teachers

Xe

51

Knaresborough St John’s parents

Xe

52

Scorchers Strikers

JXen

53

Piccadilly Plodders

Me

54

Nidd Valley Juniors

JXfc

55

Midlife crisis

Men

56

Scrambled Legs

Me

57

Can you dig it!!

Me

58

Kingfisher Kiosk

Xen

59

Manor House On the Move

Xen

60

1st Scriven Scout Group

JMe

61

All Saints Primary School, Kirkby Overblow

Xe

62

The Track & Sleeper

Xf

63

Barker and Stonehouse

Xen

64

Aspin Park Academy Parents

Xe

65

Aspin Park Academy (Staff)

Xe

66

Manor Preschool

Xe

67

St Marys Primary School

Xen

68

Switalskis Solicitors

Xe

69

Meadowside Masters

Xe

70

Meadowside Mavericks

Xe

71

Welly Warriors

Xf

72

Harrogate Round Table

Me

73

Knaresborough Air Cadets

JMf

74

Harrogate Town AFC Community Foundation

Xe

75

Badgered Into Running

Xe

76

MOGS (Mums of Goldsborough School)

Ff

77

Harrogate Neighbours Heroes

Men

78

VP Credit Control Team

Xen

79

Bedder Late than Never

Xen

80

New Park Pacers

Fe

81

Open Arms Malawi

Xen

82

HGS Science

Xe

83

Hard Caw Warriors

Men

84

Armed Forces Fitness

Xe

85

Stray Runners

Xe

86

Red Dogs Bebra

Xen

87

Mums’ Minds Matter

Fen

88

Scotton Rockets

Fen

89

Techbuyer & St Peters Primary School

Fe

90

Starbeck Tennis Club Ladies

Fen

Categories are:

Mf = male fast; Ff =female fast; Xf = mixed fast; Me = male entertaining;

Men = male entertaining new; Fe = female entertaining; Fen = female entertaining new;

Xen = mixed entertaining new; Jmf = junior male fast; JMfn = junior male fast new;

c = running club.

Current at the time of printing

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