Posted: February 14, 2007

Athletics: ARRS Offers Comprehensive Marathon Statistics

From David Monti © 2007 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved RaceResultsWeekly.com The Association of Road Running Statisticians (ARRS) has published a comprehensive set of statistics related to marathons held in 2006. They are available at http://www.arrs.net At this link, www.arrs.netm, a listing of the winners of 1691 marathons held throughout the world last year is available. Where known, the listing indicates the number of runnings of the race, the number of male and female finishers, the male winner and the female winner. At this link, www.arrs.net, there is a listing of the top 200 marathon performances recorded throughout the world in 2006 for men and women, including those held on short courses and those which are excessively aided. The 200th performance for men was 2:12:21 while the 200th performance for women was 2:33:29. Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest