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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

parkrun stats of the week...12th October 2013

The parkrun statistics of note for last weekend are:
- 315 parkrun events run (NEW RECORD - I believe that is now 7 record breaking weeks in a row)
- 45,515 runners 

The average number of runners per parkrun event run was: 144.5

14 parkrun events recorded new record attendances last weekend, as follows:

Event   Record Attendance  
Aberdeen 240
Armagh 87
Berwick Springs 126
Kalgoorlie-Boulder 91
Leszno 94
Nahoon Point 611
Parramatta 129
Pennington Flash 208
Pontefract 213
Pontypridd 168
Sewerby 188
South Manchester 347
Southend 271
Victoria 200

Event  
Record Attendance  Record Week  
Amager Faelled14628/08/2010
The longest standing parkrun attendance record is:

And in the UK it's:

Hackney Marshes7521/05/2011

The highest attendance this week was exactly 850 at Bushy parkrun.
And outside the UK it was 550 at Newy parkrun in Australia.

The lowest attendance this week was just 4 at Durham NC parkrun. 

89 runners ran under 17 minutes around the world of parkrun last weekend. 6 of them under 16 minutes. 

The fastest parkrunner in the world last weekend was Jacek Sobas, running 15:41 at Wroclaw parkrun in Poland.

The top age grade performance last weekend was 92.82%, by Ros Tabor, running 21:50 in the VM60-64 category at Southwark parkrun.

And a quick look at a superb junior performance:
Ben Clarke set a new category record at St Albans pakrun, running 17:16 in the JM14 category - very impressive.

Paul Freyne still tops the table of most different parkrun events attended, with 156 different event locations in his 200 parkrun outings. And a special mention for Leon Foster who has run 51 of his 52 parkruns at different parkrun events - amazing parkrun tourism!
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