NINETEEN THOUSAND ONE-HUNDRED-TWELVE COMPETITORS START DOWN BROAD STREET – A RECORD NUMBER FOR THE RACE. KAREN MITCHELL PHOTO

Koech, Murage Win Broad Street;
Attendance Record Broken Again

BY JERRY NOLAN

PHILADELPHIA, PA--The Broad Street Ten Miler is rated at the second largest ten miler in the U.S. The reason is that it continues to grow by leaps and bounds. A total of 19,112 runners finished the 29th annual edition of the race held on May 4. Jim Marino, the race director, advises if the registration continues to grow at the current rate, a different arrangement for assembling and starting the runners on North Broad Street will be necessary. One of the reasons for the increase in participants is because of the women’s numbers; fifty-eight percent of this year’s finishers were women.

Speaking of the women, Jane Murage, age 20, from Royersford, PA led all 9,289 women to the finish with her time of 54:16. It was her first U.S. race. She was followed by Caroline Chepkorir, age 20, also from Royersford (55:49). Two Philadelphia women finished third and fourth: Abby Dean, age 36, (58:38), and Andrea Niggemeier, age 38, (59:01).

Overall race honors went to Philip Koech, age 30, from West Chester, PA with a winning time of 46:23. Following him was Joel Melly, age 24, also from West Chester (48:00) and Macharia Yuot, age 26, from Chester, PA (48:03). A familiar name in local running, Ross Martinson, age 30, from Conshohocken, PA was fifth (49:34).