By Matt Lynch - Runner's Tribe
On the 28th March 2018, QLD Athletics hosted the final track and field competition before the star of the Commonwealth Games. After months of the planning, the Queensland International Track Classic (QITC) accommodated athletes from over 30 countries, Olympic champions, World champions and thousands...
Australia hosts two IAAF Gold Labelled Marathons. The Gold Coast Marathon and the Sydney Marathon. Both these events are superbly managed and are continually growing and boosting Australian tourism through the sport we all love, running.
IAAF Road Race Label Events are races that the International Association of Athletics Federations...
Runner's Tribe
Here is a list of the fastest marathon debuts ever. We rank the top 20 men and women. Because Boston is a point-to-point course, with an overall downhill slope, the times were not officially recognised, hence Moses Mosop's positioning as the unofficial number 1. The IAAF rules essentially require...
Aussie have never been slower - Basic Stats Analysis
Article by Ivanka Nikolova Ph.D.
Participation in marathons has increased x 8 over the last 20-years – however data shows that Aussie marathon runners are slowing down. Why is this?
*Note from editor: This is a generalised stats analysis that has not taken into...
In this article, we focused on the age distribution of marathon finishers. And we were looking for the patterns in the participants' age.
For this research, we have analyzed 2,340,118 results of marathon finishers from 148 races.
Also, we interviewed 7 experts and asked for their observations and explanation of the visible trends.
Key...
Everyone loves using a bit of All-Athletics (www.all-athletics.com) when checking up on some personal bests. It’s even been used in verb form before;
“Oh, who’s this guy in lane 4?”
“no idea. never heard of him”
“You should all athletics him”
Not only does it compile millions of results and keeps athlete profiles...
