When Kenyan Dennis Kimetto set the world record at the Berlin Marathon in 2014, his time, 2:02:57, made him the first runner to complete a marathon in less than two hours, three minutes. His time was 26 seconds faster than the previous record, set by fellow Kenyan Wilson Kipsang at the previous year’s Berlin Marathon. […]
When Kenyan Dennis Kimetto set the world record at the Berlin Marathon in 2014, his time, 2:02:57, made him the first runner to complete a marathon in less than two hours, three minutes. His time was 26 seconds faster than the previous record, set by fellow Kenyan Wilson Kipsang at the previous year’s Berlin Marathon. […]
This article is an update to a marathon prediction calculator that originally appeared on Slate in October 2014. Since then, the statisticians behind the calculator have updated the numbers and the formula on which it is based, and the author of the article has become a FiveThirtyEight staff writer. As a result, FiveThirtyEight has reworked […]
The Olympic stadium was quiet on Wednesday morning, and spectators in the sparsely filled stands seemed to pay little notice to South African runner Caster Semenya as she cruised to an easy win in her first-round heat of the 800 meters. But on Saturday evening, when Semenya will contest the 800-meter final, she’ll have the […]
Almaz Ayana won the gold medal in the women’s 10,000 meters at the Summer Olympics on Friday with a blistering pace that obliterated the previous world best to set a new world record — 29:17.45. When Mo Farah took home the gold in the men’s 10,000 meters the next day in Rio de Janeiro, his […]
