Beer mile

[3] Shelby Houlihan broke the women's beer mile record in 2023 with a time of 5:43.81, becoming the first woman to break six minutes.

[4] In 1997, Seanna Robinson, a resident of Toronto, set the female beer mile record at an event held in Hamilton, Ontario.

[5] Her time of 6:42.0 stood as the women's world record until 2014, when Chris Kimbrough, a 44-year-old mother of six, ran the beer mile in 6:28.6.

[11] By the end of 2016, neither race series was solvent,[citation needed] with the National Beer Mile closing operations under dubious circumstances.

It is a race among teams that consist of two people carrying a crate of beer, all of which must be consumed prior to crossing the finish line.