Who's run 5th Ave Mile the most times?

[El Toro]

OK, I've poked around the NYRR site and changed search parameters and found some more detail. It's still not a complete dataset on NYRR but I've been able to add a few more bits and pieces.

I've done quality control as much as I can, so it's probably as good as it's going to get from public sources.

I'm not going to maintain the data, but the data set is available in .xlsx format to anybody who wants it at the following link:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/726802

Just a reminder not to trust any download on a free service like sendspace, so run your virus checker over the file before you open it.

If you have any questions, ask them in this forum.

[aaronk]

Thanks for all of the above incredible information!!
I'm still surprised that Nick Willis doesn't lead the list for the men, as to races completed!!

[El Toro]

I did a bit more cross checking on women's married names and all country affiliation and found a few more inconsistencies, which are now corrected.

As a result I edited the table above for the following:

Brit McRoberts now harmonised to Brit McRoberts-Lind Petersen as per WA profile. This increased her number of competitions from 7 to 8 with the final year extending from 1989 to 1990.

Relevant post above: https://forum.trackandfieldnews.com/...09#post1724709

[El Toro]

I just had a post of athletes with the most wins disappear into the unapproved ether, so I'll try another list, this time the top 25 times overall.

You will need to take the times with a small pinch of salt because times were published variously to the full second, tenths or hundreths. Some races event had a mix of hundreths for the top finishers and tenths for those lower down.

Apart from those to the hundreth, it's not clear if the others were hand timed to the tenth or rounded from auto times.

Clearly the whole second times discarded some part seconds but I couldn't find anything more detailed for those years (2003 &2004). Luckily, they were the slowest years with only two men sub-4 in 2003 and 4:10 the winner in 2004.

It's possible that the full times are available in the bowels of the NYRR but I wouldn't bet on it.

Rank	Time	Name	Year
1	4:16.1	Jenny Simpson	2019
2	4:16.2	Elinor Purrier	2019
3	4:16.6	Jenny Simpson	2017
4	4:16.68	Patti Sue Plumer	1990
5	4:17.49	Natalya Artyomova	1990
6	4:17.6	Laura Weightman	2017
7	4:18.30	Jenny Simpson	2016
	4:18.3	Jessica Judd	2017
9	4:18.40	Laura Muir	2016
	4:18.4	Brenda Martinez	2017
11	4:18.6	Lisa Dobriskey	2008
12	4:18.8	Jenny Simpson	2018
13	4:19.2	Shannon Rowbury	2008
	4:19.2	Eilish McColgan	2017
	4:19.2	Colleen Quigley	2018
16	4:19.30	Jenny Simpson	2013
17	4:19.40	Jenny Simpson	2014
18	4:19.43	Yvonne Mai	1990
19	4:19.48	Maricica Puica	1986
20	4:19.60	Brenda Martinez	2014
	4:19.6	Dominique Scott	2017
22	4:19.70	Heather Kampf	2016
23	4:20.03	Mary Decker Slaney	1988
24	4:20.2	Melissa Courtney	2018
25	4:20.5	Emma Coburn	2018
Rank	Time	Name	Year
1	3:47.52	Sydney Maree	1981
2	3:47.8	Isaac Viciosa	1995
3	3:47.83	Peter Elliott	1990
4	3:48.2	Stephen Kipkorir	1995
5	3:48.39	Steve Cram	1990
6	3:49.40	Eric Jenkins	2016
7	3:49.50	Matthew Centrowitz	2016
	3:49.5	Jake Wightman	2021
9	3:49.59	Mike Boit	1981
10	3:49.77	Steve Scott	1983
11	3:49.9	Craig Mottram	2005
12	3:50.10	Ross Donoghue	1983
13	3:50.30	Colby Alexander	2016
	3:50.3	Oliver Hoare	2021
15	3:50.4	Sam Prakel	2021
	3:50.4	Jake Heyward	2021
17	3:50.48	Thomas Wessinghage	1981
18	3:50.5	Nick Willis	2008
	3:50.5	Bernard Lagat	2011
20	3:50.52	William Tanui	1990
21	3:50.6	Bernard Lagat	2008
22	3:50.7	Gennaro Di Napoli	1995
23	3:50.72	Sydney Maree	1983
24	3:50.78	Steve Cram	1981
25	3:51.00	Jordan McNamara	2014
	3:51.00	Garrett Heath	2014
	3:51.0	Vincent Ciattei	2021

[El Toro]

Here's the athletes with the most wins:

Wins	Athlete	Years
8	Jenny Simpson	2011
		2013
		2014
		2015
		2016
		2017
		2018
		2019
2	Maricica Puica	1984
		1986
2	Regina Jacobs	1994
		1998
2	Paula Radcliffe	1996
		1997
2	Kim McGreevy	2000
		2001
2	Theresa Du Toit	2003
		2004
2	Carmen Douma-Hussar	2005
		2007
2	Shannon Rowbury	2009
		2010
5	Nick Willis	2008
		2013
		2015
		2017
		2019
4	Isaac Viciosa	1995
		1996
		1997
		1998
3	Peter Elliott	1987
		1989
		1990
2	Steve Scott	1983
		1988
2	John Itati	2001
		2003
2	Jake Wightman	2018
		2021

[lonewolf]

Incredible compilation. Thank you and Congrats.

[wamego relays champ]

Interesting while looking at this to see the names of the various sponsors over the years. Pepsi, Mercedes, Discover Card, New Balance.

For a couple of years in the mid-90's it was the Donald J. Trump 5th Avenue Mile.
The backstory:
https://lopemagazine.com/2018/10/04/...-sponsor-nyrr/

[El Toro]

Here's a table of the winners by country and gender:

Country	F	M	Total
USA	23	12	35
GBR	6	7	13
NZL		6	6
KEN	1	4	5
ESP		5	5
CAN	4	1	5
ROU	3		3
RSA	2		2
MAR		2	2
IRL	1	1	2
BRA		1	1
AUS		1	1
Total	40	40	80

[El Toro]

Thanks to gm for the final year of data. I have now updated the tables and the only change from yesterday was Jim Spivey getting an additional competiton in due to 1996.

I've updated the men's table and also corrected Country affiliation as far as possible - this was not a priority for NYRR.

I've also extended the women's table down to those with 6 competitions.

For both tables, I've now sorted in by Competitions, then First Year, to give a better idea of the eras.

Name	Country	Competitions	FirstYear	Last year
Heather Kampf	USA	9	2010	2019
Jenny Simpson	USA	9	2011	2019
Christina Boxer Cahill	GBR	8	1981	1990
*Brit McRoberts-Lind Petersen	CAN	8	1981	1990
Diana Richburg	USA	7	1982	1989
Shannon Rowbury	USA	7	2008	2015
Lynn Williams	CAN	6	1981	1989
Sara Hall	USA	6	2006	2011
Hannah England	GBR	6	2009	2014
Name	Country	Competitions	FirstYear	Last year
John Walker	NZL	9	1981	1989
Ray Flynn	IRL	8	1981	1989
Steve Scott	USA	8	1981	1990
Sydney Maree	USA	8	1981	1992
Jim Spivey	USA	8	1983	1996
Nick Willis	NZL	8	2006	2019
David Torrence	USA	8	2008	2015
Jama Aden	SOM	7	1983	1991
Marcus O'Sullivan	IRL	7	1987	1996
Bernard Lagat	USA	7	2008	2015

* Edited to correct record for Brit McRoberts. Now harmonised name to Brit McRoberts-Lind Petersen to increase her count from 7 to 8 with the final year extending from 1989 to 1990.

[gm]

Shadrack Lagat!

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[wamego relays champ]

If anybody can track down the full 1996 results, I'll add that to my list but I'm not going to go looking for it myself.

eTN No. 36 in 1996 lists the top 12, which most likely is incomplete. However it lists in 9th place "Lagat (Ken)." Could this be Bernard Lagat? Or am I forgetting another Lagat of that era?

Sept 1996 would have been the fall of Bernard's freshman year at WSU, when he was 3 months shy of his 22nd birthday.

[El Toro]

Who has run (and finished!) the most 5th Avenue Miles in its 40 year history?
I'm obviously talking of the elite division only!

My guess is Simpson for the women, and Nick Willis for the mn!
But I could be wrong.

After a lot of unecessarily difficult graft on they nyrr website and internet searching as well as help from gm on the 1986 data, I managed to pull together results for all years, apart from 1996 and 2020. They did not run an event in 2020, so there's nothing to chase up except for 1996.

The missing data doesn't seem to interfere with answering the question becaue all the athletes with seven or more appearances don't span that year.. I've posted the tables below. If anybody can track down the full 1996 results, I'll add that to my list but I'm not going to go looking for it myself.

Name	Country	Competitions	FirstYear	Last year
Jenny Simpson	USA	9	2011	2019
Heather Kampf	USA	9	2010	2019
Christina Boxer Cahill	GBR	8	1981	1990
Brit McRoberts	CAN	7	1981	1989
Shannon Rowbury	USA	7	2008	2015
Diana Richburg	USA	7	1982	1989

Name	Country	Competitions	FirstYear	Last year
John Walker	NZL	9	1981	1989
Nick Willis	NZL	8	2006	2019
Sydney Maree	USA	8	1981	1992
David Torrence	USA	8	2008	2015
Ray Flynn	IRL	8	1981	1989
Steve Scott	USA	8	1981	1990
Bernard Lagat	USA	7	2008	2015
Jama Aden	SOM	6	1984	1991
	USA	1	1983	1983
Jim Spivey	USA	7	1983	1994

[KDFINE]

I'd guess that the New York Road Runners Club magazine back issues has results that may be "pretty" deep.

[gm]

Or, if you want deeper 1986 results...

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[Conor Dary]

I had a look to see if this could be done and it probably could, EXCEPT the database only has the winners (M/F) for 1986. That lack of data sort of kills the project right there.

I couldn't find any complete results online for 1986 but if somebody can find full results for both sexes for that year, I might look at it again.