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New Balance 5th Avenue Mile

Sunday September 8th, 2024
Manhattan, NY
Distance: 1 Mile
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The New Balance 5th Avenue Mile opens a beautiful 20-block stretch of 5th Avenue to runners of all ages and abilities who want to run their best mile in New York City. Special races include a youth mile, the George Sheehan Memorial Mile for runners age 60 and over, the NYRR Road Mile Championships, and Olympic-caliber professional men's and women's races.




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New Balance 5th Avenue Mile, Race Date: 2023-09-10, Distance: Mile
Division Time Name Age Home
Male 3:48 Josh Kerr 25 GBR
2nd Male 3:50 George Mills 24 GBR
3rd Male 3:50 Geordie Beamish 26 NZL
4th Male 3:51 Vincent Ciattel 28 Flagstaff, AZ
Female 4:20 Jemma Reekie 25 GBR
2nd Female 4:20 Sarah Healy 22 IRL
3rd Female 4:21 Melissa Courtney Bry 30 GBR
4th Female 4:22 Adelle Tracey 30 JAM
Division Time Name Age Home
M 40-49 4:32 Eric Aldrich 45 Ridgewood, NJ
M 50-59 4:42 Peter Brady 51 Scarsdale, NY
M 60-69 5:10 Richard Lee 62 Bayville, NJ
M 70+ 6:23 Rodger Ward 70 NZL
F 40-49 4:58 Katie Beck 40 CAN
F 50-59 5:14 Jennifer Harvey 55 NY, NY
F 60-69 5:55 Suzanne la Burt 60 Greenwood Lake, NY
F 70+ 8:14 Christy Putnam 71 NY, NY
New Balance 5th Avenue Mile

Nick Willis appears to be getting better with age.

The 36-year-old runner added to his legendary career with a record-breaking fifth victory at the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile Sunday in New York City.

Willis pulled out the victory with a time of 3-minutes,51.7-seconds in a photo-finish race.

The former University of Michigan runner and 2-time Olympic medalist has now claimed the men’s title five times, with victories in 2008, 2013, 2015 and 2017 and 2019, placing the New Zealand native alone atop the men’s division in the history books.

Willis still lives and trains in Ann Arbor and the win adds to his accomplishments, which include a silver medal in the Beijing 2008 Olympics, a bronze medal in the Rio 2016 Games and a bronze medal in the 2016 World Championships.

On the women’s side of the event, Jenny Simpson of Webster City, Iowa, claimed her seventh title in a row and eighth overall in 4:16.1 on Sunday.

The New Balance 5th Avenue Mile race began in 1981 -- two years before Willis was born -- and overtime has become one of the world’s premier mile races.


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