Running Past - Wanamaker Mile Champions List

The highlighted event at the Millrose Games every February is the Wanamaker Mile. Every year since 1926 some of the greatest milers in the world have tested themselves in this classic race. In all the Internet the one thing we found missing was a list of the Wanamaker Mile Champions...So here it is.

We've done our best to compile the most accurate list we can from old Millrose Games programs and other web sites, and thanks to Millrose Games Meet Director Emeritus, Mr Howard M. Schmertz, we now have the complete record of these great Wanamaker Mile Champions.

(Update - December 2019: We made a correction, Niall Bruton of Ireland won the mile in 1996 not Marcus O'Sullivan as previously listed. Marcus finished second.)

Marcus O'Sullivan, 1989 Wanamaker Mile - Bell lap 3:54.27

Year	Name	Country	Time
2024	Yared Nuguse	USA	3:47:83
2023	Yared Nuguse	USA	3:47:38
2022	Ollie Hoare	Australia	3:50:83
2021	Meet canceled due to Covid-19
2020	Chris O'Hare	Great Britain	3:55.61
2019	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia	3:48.46
2018	Chris O'Hare	Great Britain	3:54.14
2017	Eric Jenkins	USA	3:53.23
2016	Matt Centrowitz	USA	3:50.63
2015	Matt Centrowitz	USA	3:51.35
2014	Will Leer	USA	3:52.47
2013	Lopez Lomong	USA	3:51.21
2012	Matt Centrowitz	USA	3:53.92
2011	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:58.58
2010	Bernard Lagat	USA	3:56.34
2009	Bernard Lagat	USA	3:58.44
2008	Bernard Lagat	USA	3:57.91
2007	Bernard Lagat	USA	3:54.26
2006	Bernard Lagat	USA	3:56.85
2005	Bernard Lagat	USA	3:52.87
2004	Hudson De Souza	Brazil	4:02.93
2003	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	4:00.36
2002	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3:57.04
2001	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3:58.26
2000	Mark Carroll	Ireland	3:58.19
1999	William Tanui	Kenya	3:59.24
1998	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3:55.69
1997	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	3:59.34
1996	Niall Bruton	Ireland	4:00.58
1995	Graham Hood	Canada	3:57.08
1994	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3:58.71
1993	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:55.06
1992	Marcus O’Sullivan	Ireland	4:00.65
1991	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:53.50
1990	Marcus O’Sullivan	Ireland	3:59.35
1989	Marcus O’Sullivan	Ireland	3:54.27
1988	Marcus O’Sullivan	Ireland	3:56.89
1987	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:55.91
1986	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	3:56.05
1985	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:53.82
1984	Steve Scott	USA	3:59.38
1983	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:54.40
1982	Steve Scott	USA	3:55.37
1981	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:53.0
1980	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:58.2
1979	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	3:55.0
1978	Dick Buerkle	USA	3.58.4
1977	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	4.00.2
1976	Paul Cummings	USA	3.57.6
1975	Filbert Bayi	Tanzania	3:59.3
1974	Tony Waldrop	USA	3:59.7
1973	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	4:04.4
1972	John Mason	USA	4:03.2
1971	Marty Liquori	USA	4:00.6
1970	Marty Liquori	USA	4:02.6
1969	Marty Liquori	USA	4:00.8
1968	Preston Davis	USA	4:03.9
1967	Dave Patrick	USA	4:03.7
1966	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	4:03.9
1965	John Whetton	England	4:05.4
1964	Tom O'Hara	USA	4:00.6
1963	Tom O'Hara	USA	4:01.5
1962	Peter Close	USA	4:08.6
1961	Islvan Rozsavolgyi	Hungary	4:06.0
1960	James Grelle	USA	4:06.4
1959	Ron Delany	Ireland	4:06.5
1958	Ron Delany	Ireland	4:04.6
1957	Ron Delany	Ireland	4:06.7
1956	Ron Delany	Ireland	4:09.5
1955	Gunnar Nielsen	Denmark	4:03.6
1954	Josy Barthel	Luxembourg	4:07.5
1953	Fred Dwyer	USA	4:08.2
1952	Don A. Gehrmann	USA	4:11.2
1951	Don A. Gehrmann	USA	4:07.5
1950	Don A. Gehrmann	USA	4:09.3
1949	Don A. Gehrmann	USA	4:09.5
1948	Gilbert Dodds	USA	4:05.3
1947	Gilbert Dodds	USA	4:09.2
1946	Leslie MacMitchell	USA	4:19.0
1945	James Rafferty	USA	4:13.1
1944	Gilbert Dodds	USA	4:10.6
1943	Earl Mitchell	USA	4:08.6
1942	Leslie MacMitchell	USA	4:11.3
1941	Walter J. Mehl	USA	4:13.6
1940	Charles H. Fenske	USA	4:07.4
1939	Glenn Cunningham	USA	4:13.0
1938	Glenn Cunningham	USA	4:11.0
1937	Glenn Cunningham	USA	4:14.4
1936	Joseph R. Mangan	USA	4:11.0
1935	Glenn Cunningham	USA	4:11.0
1934	Glenn Cunningham	USA	4:11.2
1933	Glenn Cunningham	USA	4:13.0
1932	Gene Venzke	USA	4:11.2
1931	Ray Conger	USA	4:13.6
1930	Ray Conger	USA	4:21.8
1929	Ray Conger	USA	4:17.4
1928	Lloyd Hahn	USA	4:18.6
1927	Lloyd Hahn	USA	4:15.6
1926	James J. Connolly	USA	4:17.2