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
