The New York Mini 10K is an annual 10-kilometer road running

Road running

Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road . These events would be classified as long distance according to athletics terminology, with distances typically ranging from 5 kilometers to 42.2 kilometers in the marathon. They may involve large numbers of runners...

 competition for women that takes place in Central Park

Central Park

Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...

, New York City

New York City

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, in the United States

United States

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. The race has been organised by New York Road Runners

New York Road Runners

New York Road Runners , founded in 1958 with 47 members, has grown into the foremost running organization, with a membership of 40,000. NYRR conducts more than 100 events each year, including races, classes, clinics, and lectures...

 since 1972. The competition has both an elite-level race and a fun run

Fun run

A fun run is a friendly race that involves either road running or cross country running with participants taking part for their own enjoyment rather than competition. A fun run will usually be held to raise funds for a charity, with sponsors providing the revenue to cover organisational costs...

, both of which accounted for a total of 5189 finishers in 2010.

The idea of a 10K women's race was the joint vision of elite runners Nina Kuscsik

Nina Kuscsik

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 and Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer

Kathrine Switzer is the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. Her finishing time of approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes was nearly an hour behind the first female...

, and New York City Marathon

New York City Marathon

The New York City Marathon is a major annual marathon that courses through the five boroughs of New York City. It is one of the largest marathons in the world, with 45,103 finishers in 2010...

 co-director Fred Lebow

Fred Lebow

Fred Lebow , who was born Fischel Lebowitz, was an avid runner and founder of the New York City Marathon. Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with over 43,660 finishers in 2009...

 – in the early 1970s, there was a dearth of women's road racing competitions. The race's inaugural sponsor Johnson Wax (who were promoting a women's shaving gel called Crazylegs) suggested a full marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 event (26 miles and 385 yards), but it was decided that a more manageable "mini marathon" race over 6 miles would be held. The first edition in 1972 was known as the Crazylegs Mini Marathon – with the "mini" being derived from the miniskirt

Miniskirt

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 which was popular at the time. A total of 78 runners took part in the race, which was the world's first women-only road racing competition.

The course of the road race begins near 61st Street on Central Park West and heads north, entering Central Park at West 90th Street. The route loops in a clockwise direction, turning southwards at Harlem Meer around the 3-mile (5-kilometre) mark. It continues south past the Central Park Reservoir and the Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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. Runners continue southwards until they come towards the park's limits near Wollman Rink

Wollman Rink

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 at which point it heads to the west and turns north to the finishing point near the Tavern on the Green

Tavern on the Green

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 and Sheep Meadow.

The course record is held by Asmae Leghzaoui

Asmae Leghzaoui

Asmae Leghzaoui is a Moroccan athletics middle distance runner. She is a two-time Olympian for Morocco.In 1999, Leghzaoui made a running breakthrough by improving her 3000 metres personal best by a minute and breaking the World record for the 10K road race...

 of Morocco

Morocco

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, who finished the race in 30:29 to win the 2002 edition. Grete Waitz

Grete Waitz

Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons between 1978 and 1988, more than any other runner in history...

 and Tegla Loroupe

Tegla Loroupe

Tegla Chepkite Loroupe is a long-distance track and road runner, and a global spokeswoman for peace, women's rights, and education....

 are the race's most successful athletes, with both of them having each won the race on five separate occasions. Following her death in 2011, the 40th edition of the race was dedicated to Waitz.

Past winners

Key:

Edition	Year	Winner	Time (m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
1st	1972		37:01.7
2nd	1973		36:48.7
3rd	1974		36:46
4th	1975		35:57
5th	1976		35:05
6th	1977		34:15
7th	1978		33:29
8th	1979		31:15.4
9th	1980		30:59.8
10th	1981		32:43.1
11th	1982		31:59.2
12th	1983		32:23
13th	1984		31:53
14th	1985		32:23
15th	1986		31:45
16th	1987		32:49
17th	1988		31:31
18th	1989		32:09
19th	1990		32:36
20th	1991		32:24
21st	1992		31:41
22nd	1993		32:31
23rd	1994		31:52
24th	1995		31:22
25th	1996		32:13
26th	1997		31:45
27th	1998		35:26
28th	1999		31:48
29th	2000		31:37
30th	2001		30:47
31st	2002		30:28.6
32nd	2003		31:13
33rd	2004		31:44
34th	2005		31:43.7
35th	2006		31:26.7
36th	2007		32:10
37th	2008		32:42.6
38th	2009		32:43
39th	2010		30:48
40th	2011		31:40

Winners by country

Country	Total
	12
	10
	7
	4
	2
	1
	1
	1
	1

Multiple winners

Athlete	Country	Wins	Years
Grete Waitz Grete Waitz Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons between 1978 and 1988, more than any other runner in history...		5	1979–82, 1984
Tegla Loroupe Tegla Loroupe Tegla Chepkite Loroupe is a long-distance track and road runner, and a global spokeswoman for peace, women's rights, and education....		5	1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000
Lornah Kiplagat Lornah Kiplagat Lornah Kiplagat is a Dutch long-distance runner. She was born in Kabiemit, Rift Valley Province, Kenya and came to the Netherlands in 1999. She gained Dutch citizenship in 2003 and has competed for the Netherlands since...	/	4	2003, 2005–07
Ingrid Kristiansen Ingrid Kristiansen Ingrid Kristiansen née Christensen , was one of the best female long distance runners in the second half of the 1980s. She finished in fourth place in the first women's Olympic marathon race, at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Career:Kristiansen started her career quite unremarkably, running 2:30 - 2:40...		2	1986, 1988
Delilah Asiago Delilah Asiago Delilah Asiago is a retired female athlete from Kenya. She specialized in long-distance running, including marathons.She was banned for two years after she tested positive for doping during the 1999 Saint Silvester Race. Nevertheless, she was still active in 2006 when she won the Dubai...		2	1991, 1995

External links

• Official website at New York Road Runners
  New York Road Runners
  New York Road Runners , founded in 1958 with 47 members, has grown into the foremost running organization, with a membership of 40,000. NYRR conducts more than 100 events each year, including races, classes, clinics, and lectures...