The Blue Cross Broad Street Run, which has taken place in

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on the first Sunday in May since the early 1980s, is the largest (40,689 runners in 2012) 10-mile road race in the

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Course

The race starts at T.S. Park, in the Logan neighborhood, on the front lawn of historic

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and at the athletic fields at Central High School. The course stretches south along Broad Street. Runners pass

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. The race finishes at the Navy Yard in

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in South Philadelphia. After the stadium was condemned and demolished, the finish moved to FDR Park (on the other side of Broad Street), and then to the Navy Yard, about a quarter mile beyond the front gates. Participation rose steadily through the 1990s and exploded by the mid-2000s. Since 2013, registration of single runners (though not teams) has been handled by lottery, with about 40,000 entrants, and roughly 35,000 runners finishing the race, the majority of them women. Due to the

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, the 2020 race did not occur on the first Sunday of May as planned. It was postponed until at least Sunday, October 4th, 2020. This is the first time since the early 1980s that it didn't occur on the first Sunday of May.

Course records

* Open Male: Patrick Cheruiyot, 45:14, 2007 * Open Female:

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, 52:56, 2021 * Master Male: Andrey Kuznetsov, 50:13, 2002 * Master Female: Sandra Mewett, 57:56, 1992 * Open Wheelchair Male: Tony Nogueira, 32:05, 2007 * Open Wheelchair Female: Jessica Galli, 35:59, 2001 * Master Wheelchair Male: Tony Nogueira, 33:52, 2008 * Master Wheelchair Female: Jacqui Kapinowski, 49:19, 2008

Past winners

Key: Winners by Country

Top Philadelphia Finisher (Richard Lagocki Memorial Award)

Deaths

*1998 - Richard Lagocki, 45, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaKenyan wins Broad Street Run
AP (May 3, 1998). Retrieved on 2011-10-13. *2007 - Robert A. Massaroni, 29,

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, was a 7th grade Social Studies teacher at Shafer Middle School in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. *2019 - Brian Smart, 25, Hatboro,

, was an athletic trainer at

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References

External links

Broad Street Run official site
{{10-mile road races 10-mile runs Sports in Philadelphia Road running competitions in the United States Recurring sporting events established in 1980