Which countries have the most marathon runners? Where is the split between male and female runners most even? And how likely are you to complete the London marathon?
A few months ago, I reported the findings of research that showed that female marathon runners are better than men at maintaining their pace. Now Jens Jakob Andersen from Copenhagen Business School and runrepeat.com has done some new research, looking at the popularity of marathon running more generally and average finishing times across the world.
He created a database of more than 2m results, but then eliminated outliers such as elite runners, races that didn’t have enough results available and those that didn’t identify the nationality and gender of participants. All races with fewer than 10 male and 10 female participants for each year were also omitted. This left 1,298,588 results.
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