Lisa Dobriskey
Great Britain
Age: 25
Dobriskey is the defending Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile champion. She edged ahead of U.S. Olympian Shannon Rowbury in the final 200 meters of last year’s race and recorded the second-fastest time in event history: 4:18.6. She won the silver medal in the 1500 meters at the IAAF World Outdoor Championships in August.

Erin Donohue
United States
Age: 26
In high school and college, Donohue regularly performed an unusual double: the mile and the javelin throw. She represented the United States at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships 1500 meters in Osaka. Donohue won this year’s CIGNA Falmouth Mile. She lives in Haddonfield, NJ.

Hannah England
Great Britain
Age: 22
At age 22, England is one of Great Britain’s strongest middle-distance runners. As a junior at Florida State University last year, she won the NCAA 1500-meter title. She joined the professional ranks this year and has set PRs of 4:04.29 for 1500 meters and 1:59.94 for 800 meters.

Sara Hall
United States
Age: 26
The Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile champion in 2006, Hall was a top NCAA runner at Stanford. She was the first high school athlete in California history to win four state cross country titles. With her husband, Ryan Hall, she recently founded The Hall Steps Foundation to provide funding for programs that support youth living in poverty.

Amy Mortimer
United States
Age: 28
The 2003 Kansas State University graduate was a 12-time All-American. She finished fifth at the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials 1500 meters, and she was part of the U.S. team that won a bronze medal at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. This will be her fourth Continental Avenue Fifth Avenue Mile.
 

Marina Muncan
Serbia
Age: 26
The Serbian 1500-meter record-holder, Muncan competed at that distance in the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships. She was 10th in last year’s Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile. The seven-time All-American at Villanova University has remained in Philadelphia since graduating in 2005.

Shannon Rowbury
United States
Age: 25
Rowbury is the two-time defending U.S. champion at 1500 meters and won the bronze medal at that distance at the 2009 IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Berlin. She finished a close second to Lisa Dobriskey at last year’s Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile in the event’s third-fastest time ever.

Christin Wurth-Thomas
United States
Age: 29
A 2008 U.S. Olympian at 1500 meters, Wurth-Thomas placed fifth at that distance in August’s IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Berlin. The previous month, she joined the exclusive ranks of sub-4:00 1500-meter runners with a 3:59.98 performance in Rome; she also set a 800-meter PR this year (1:59.23).