FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NYRR New York Mini 10K to Feature All-Star American Lineup
for USATF 10 km Championships on Saturday, June 8
Past 10 km national champions Stephanie Bruce, Aliphine Tuliamuk, Emily
Sisson and Deena Kastor to toe the line in Central Park
Five-time New York City Marathon winner Tatyana McFadden
and defending Mini 10K champion Susannah Scaroni
to headline second year of professional wheelchair race
New York, May 21, 2019 - This year's NYRR New York Mini 10K, the world's
original women-only road race, will serve as the USATF 10 km Championships
for the first time in the event's 47-year history on Saturday, June 8 and
feature one of the best professional athlete fields ever assembled for the
event. The professional open division will include four U.S. 10K champions
- Stephanie Bruce (2018), Aliphine Tuliamuk (2017), Emily Sisson (2016),
and Deena Kastor (2007) - while the professional wheelchair division will
return for the second year with defending champion Susannah Scaroni.
"The Mini is one of road racing's crown jewels and has been a showcase for
many of the world's greatest runners for decades," said Chris Weiller,
NYRR's head of professional athletics. "With the national championship on
the line for the first time, we're excited to welcome one of the greatest
collections of American women in event history. This year will be special."
The 2019 USATF 10 km Championships will offer a $75,000 prize purse - the
most-ever for a single gender USATF 10 km Championships - including $20,000
for the first-place finisher and will be streamed live on USATF.TV. The
women's 10 km Championships have taken place every year since 1978 and
since 2002 have been a part of the USATF Running Circuit, which features
championships from one mile through the marathon and consistently attracts
the best American distance runners.
Sisson, who won the USATF 5 km title in Central Park last year and was the
top American woman in April's London Marathon in her 26.2-mile debut, will
be going for her second national title in the distance. In Central Park,
she will be challenged by defending USATF 10 km and Half-Marathon champion
Bruce, nine-time U.S. champion Tuliamuk, and U.S. champions Jordan Hasay,
Sara Hall and Laura Thweatt, along with Kastor, the American marathon
record-holder and 2004 NYRR New York Mini 10K champion.
"I'm excited to be lining up for one of the greatest American women's
fields ever assembled at the country's most historic all-women's race,"
Sisson said. "I've had success in winning the USATF 10 km Championships
before and will look to repeat that at this year's NYRR New York Mini 10K,
which is a great showcase of how far women's running has come in our
country."
The event will also feature a professional wheelchair division for the
second time, making it the only all-women professional wheelchair race in
the world.
"Last year, 46 years after the Mini broke ground as the first women-only
race in the world, the race had another breakthrough moment and became the
world's only all-women professional wheelchair race," Weiller said. "We're
honored to continue that new tradition with some of the sports most
talented athletes on hand to blaze the way for the thousands of runners to
follow throughout the morning."
Last year, U.S. Paralympian Susannah Scaroni won the professional
wheelchair race in a world-best 10K time of 22:48. She will be returning to
defend her title, lining up against five-time New York City Marathon
champion and 17-time Paralympic medalist Tatyana McFadden and two-time New
York City Marathon champion Amanda McGrory.
"As an elite female athlete with a disability, I know I am running on roads
paved by the hard determination and integrity of countless women before
me," Scaroni said. "It means the world to be able to honor them and carry
their light into the future, demonstrating the life and strength that all
women have. Thank you to New York Road Runners for making this awesome
opportunity what it is, and enabling us to prove what women can do."
The 10K race will begin on Central Park West at 61st Street and will finish
at 67th Street on West Drive.
The fourth annual Rising New York Road Runners at the NYRR New York Mini
10K, a 1.2-mile race for girls ages 8-18, will kick off race day at 7:15
a.m. The run will start at the same Columbus Circle location as the 10K and
will head up Central Park West before entering Central Park and finishing
at the 72nd Street Transverse. This year marks 20 years of NYRR's free
youth programming.
From those who led the way 47 years ago, such as race legends Kathrine
Switzer and Nina Kuscsik and the event's inaugural champion Jacqueline
(Marsh) Dixon, to the more than 200,000 women who have finished the race
since 1972, the NYRR New York Mini 10K has served as one of the most
impactful women's races in running history.
The event was founded as the world's original women-only road race in 1972,
and was first called the six-mile Crazylegs Mini Marathon. The NYRR New
York Mini 10K got its current name when race founder Fred Lebow convinced
the sponsor to support a six-mile "mini" marathon-named for the miniskirt,
a big fashion trend of the times. Seventy-two women finished that first
race, which helped show that women deserved to run in road races as much as
their male counterparts. Three weeks later, Title IX was signed into law,
guaranteeing women the right to participate in school sports and creating
new opportunities for female athletes. The International Olympic Committee
added the women's marathon to the Olympic program for the first time at the
1984 Los Angeles Games, a decision sparked by the growth of women's road
racing, which was led by the success of the Mini.
Here are the full professional athlete fields for the event:
Athlete Age Track PR Road PR Twitter
Esther Atkins 33 33:42.51 34:14 @estherb86
Emma Bates 26 32:13.28 32:36 @emmajbates
Chelsea Blaase 25 31:57.56 34:09 @chelseablaase
Anne-Marie Blaney 25 32:31.50 35:09 N/A
Stephanie Bruce 35 31:59.88 32:21 @Steph_Rothstein
Alex Cadicamo 31 N/A 34:42 N/A
Allison Cleaver 30 33:12.05 34:27 @aminicleaver
Carrie Dimoff 36 31:42.88 34:52 N/A
Emily Durgin 25 32:23.40 33:55 @emily_durgin
Lindsay Flangan 28 32:22.15 33:25 @liflana
Roberta Groner 41 33:57.08 33:31 @Marathongirl245
Sara Hall 36 32:35.87 32:14 @SaraHall3
Jordan Hasay 27 31:39.67 31:39 @jordanhasay
Veronica Jackson 32 N/A 35:57 N/A
Katy Jermann 27 33:05.31 33:53 @MoenEmDown
Deena Kastor 46 30:50.32 31:44 @DeenaKastor
Erika Kemp 24 33:13.44 34:16 @IMTINYRIK
Sally Kipyego 33 30:26.37 33:14 @sallykipyego
Margo Malone 25 32:29.89 35:46 @margo_malone
Shannon Malone 23 33:13.16 32:43 @Smalone_27
Maggie Montoya 24 33:41.11 34:20 @maggiemontoya1
Grayson Murphy 23 32:28.09 33:52 @racin__grayson
Diane Nukuri 34 31:28.69 31:49 @ddnukuri
Samantha Palmer 27 33:00.59 34:25 @samantha_bluske
Bethany Sachtleben 27 32:50.70 32:39 @bsach1
Lindsey Scherf 32 32:51.20 32:33 @LindseyScherf
Rachel Schneider 27 N/A 34:20 @rachschneid18
Dani Shanahan 24 32:22.59 34:21 @danishani13
Breanna Sieracki 23 N/A 34:38 @BreannaSieracki
Emily Sisson 27 30:49.57 31:47 @em_sisson
Laura Thweatt 30 31:52.94 32:20 @thweatt11
Jess Tonn 27 31:54.83 33:16 @JessTonn
Aliphine Tuliamuk 30 31:54.20 31:52 @aliphinetuliamu
Taylor Ward 28 34:07.86 33:18 @speedytay23
Professional Athlete Field - Wheelchair Division
Athlete Age Road PR Twitter
Katrina Gerhard 22 25:36 N/A
Tatyana McFadden 30 23:15 @TatyanaMcFadden
Amanda McGrory 32 23:30 @alittlechipped
Chelsea McClammer 25 23:34 @ChelseaMMcC
Arielle Rausin 25 28:11 @racingrausin
Susannah Scaroni 27 22:48 @kenyanscaroni
Michelle Wheeler 32 27:32 N/A
About New York Road Runners (NYRR)
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premier community running organization. NYRR's commitment to New York
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of people each year, from children to seniors, with the motivation,
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from the world's top professional athletes to a vast range of competitive,
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