The World Treadmill Championship - pitching elite runners against amateurs

Treadmill World Championship - what are they and how to compete?

For decades, treadmill running has been viewed as little more than a training tool for outdoor runners.

But that could be about to change, with the launch of the World Treadmill Championship.

In this new World Athletics-sanctioned competition, runners around the world log 5km on a treadmill and compete for a prize pool of $100,000 and the title of world champion.

Known as Run X, it pitches everyday runners against elite athletes.

BBC Sport was invited along to a qualification event at a gym in Southampton to observe runners logging their times on the global virtual leaderboard.

Among them is British marathon runner Charlotte Purdue.

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