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| Number of timed races in the US from the top 100 |
The big change has been in the number of Half-Marathons. Back in 2000, there were a number of really big 5k races. This has fallen way back now with the Half-Marathon taking over.
(Note that this graph is for the top 100 races, it doesn't say that the number of 5k races has dropped.....only that they are a lot fewer now in the top 100)
Here are a few other facts....
1) From the top 100 US timed races, the number of finishers went from 922,500 in 2000 to 1,611,599 in 2011.......a 75% increase.
2) In 2011, Women accounted for 7.6 million finishers in US races (a record number) and represent the highest event field percentage ever reported (55%).
3) Some of the biggest races in the USA in 2011 were....
5K 34,751E Race for the Cure: DC (6,951 timed) (Washington, DC)
4 Mile 22,676 Pat’s Run 4.2 Mile (Tempe, AZ)
8K 32,442 Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle (Chicago, IL)
10K 55,077 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race (Atlanta, GA) – largest ever
12K 51,303 Lilac Bloomsday Run (Spokane, WA)
10 Mile 25,244 Blue Cross Broad Street Run (Philadelphia, PA)
Half-Marathon 33,257 Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV) – largest U.S. ever
Marathon 47,133 ING New York City Marathon (New York, NY) – largest ever
4) The largest race in the world in 2011 was the City2Surf 14k in Sydney, Australia which had 68,929 timed finishers.
5) In 2011, six Marathons in the world had more than 30,000 finishers – New York City, Chicago, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Paris.
6) For the first time, there were four half-marathons worldwide that had more than 30,000 finishers (Göteborg, Bupa Great North Run, Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas and OneAmerica 500 Festival) plus a record eight half-marathons worldwide with more than 20,000 finishers, and last year, based on finishers, the United States had 14 of the top 20 half-marathons in the world.
