Male and female Ethiopian and Kenyan runners are the fastest and the youngest in both half and full marathon

Knechtle, Beat; Nikolaidis, Pantelis T.; Onywera, Vincent O.; Zingg, Matthias A.; Rosemann, Thomas; Rüst, Christoph A.

doi:10.1186/s40064-016-1915-0

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Table 10 Age (years) with mean ± SD of female and male East-African and Non-African marathoners

From: Male and female Ethiopian and Kenyan runners are the fastest and the youngest in both half and full marathon

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Women
Ethiopia							32
Kenya						32
Austria	47 ± 4	45 ± 15	32	26 ± 8	37 ± 4	45 ± 7	40 ± 11	41 ± 11
France	40 ± 9	47 ± 7	45 ± 11	43 ± 9	47 ± 10	46 ± 9	45 ± 8	44 ± 8
Great Britain		34 ± 4	42 ± 18	29 ± 12	43 ± 11	40 ± 9	40 ± 9	40 ± 12
Germany	45 ± 9	46 ± 11	48 ± 12	48 ± 11	44 ± 10	45 ± 13	44 ± 10	44 ± 9
Italy	43	61 ± 16	36 ± 16	52 ± 2	50 ± 4	48 ± 8	40 ± 6	33 ± 4
Japan	63	66	42 ± 17	43 ± 30	57	47 ± 18	53 ± 17	52
Switzerland	41 ± 11	42 ± 10	42 ± 11	41 ± 10	42 ± 10	42 ± 11	43 ± 11	41 ± 11
Canada				38	49 ± 10	55 ± 1	54	48 ± 7
Liechtenstein		44	52 ± 8		42 ± 11		48 ± 21	40 ± 4
USA		51				29 ± 2	39 ± 14	40 ± 17
Belgium	28				41	43 ± 18	41 ± 13	46 ± 13
Spain							40
Poland				25	30 ± 1
Men
Ethiopia			28 ± 3
Kenya		33	24 ± 4		29 ± 6	29 ± 8	29
Austria	52 ± 4	43 ± 14	45 ± 10	45 ± 9	42 ± 7	45 ± 7	44 ± 8	44 ± 9
France	43 ± 8	41 ± 10	44 ± 11	44 ± 10	44 ± 10	44 ± 9	44 ± 9	43 ± 9
Great Britain	34 ± 8	38 ± 16	39 ± 11	46 ± 13	43 ± 12	39 ± 10	41 ± 11	43 ± 10
Germany	40 ± 9	44 ± 9	44 ± 9	45 ± 9	44 ± 9	44 ± 9	43 ± 9	43 ± 9
Italy	52 ± 10	45 ± 8	50 ± 8	42 ± 9	44 ± 9	43 ± 12	44 ± 13	41 ± 9
Japan	41	64	36 ± 7	64	57 ± 8	51 ± 13	46 ± 17	45 ± 14
Switzerland	42 ± 11	43 ± 11	42 ± 11	42 ± 11	42 ± 11	42 ± 10	42 ± 11	42 ± 11
Canada	44 ± 6	45	33 ± 6	44 ± 5	41 ± 12	38 ± 12	43 ± 14	42 ± 16
Liechtenstein			29	53 ± 15	44 ± 10	40 ± 8	41 ± 8	43 ± 7
USA	45 ± 9	55 ± 8	41 ± 8	36 ± 14	37 ± 10	40 ± 11	44 ± 10	42 ± 13
Belgium		38		44 ± 10	41 ± 12	37 ± 15	43 ± 18	43 ± 11
Spain		54	45	28 ± 3	57 ± 9	44 ± 4	42 ± 10	41 ± 11
Poland		31		27 ± 4	58	40 ± 12	49	30 ± 1

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Women
Ethiopia					21	26
Kenya					35
Austria	44 ± 7	39 ± 10	43 ± 7	43 ± 6	44 ± 4	45 ± 7	40 ± 3	41 ± 10
France	41 ± 9	44 ± 9	42 ± 10	43 ± 10	45 ± 9	43 ± 8	43 ± 10	45 ± 9
Great Britain	40 ± 10	37 ± 9	39 ± 10	38 ± 18	38 ± 7	45 ± 9	36 ± 8	40 ± 12
Germany	43 ± 8	44 ± 10	43 ± 10	41 ± 11	44 ± 11	44 ± 10	41 ± 11	45 ± 10
Italy	44 ± 13	44 ± 14	55 ± 16	45 ± 10	41 ± 19	55 ± 11	41 ± 23	44 ± 18
Japan	54 ± 18	50 ± 18	61	50 ± 19	56 ± 13	49 ± 11	56 ± 8	57 ± 2
Switzerland	42 ± 10	43 ± 11	42 ± 11	41 ± 11	42 ± 11	42 ± 10	42 ± 11	42 ± 11
Canada	25	41 ± 17	41 ± 4	38 ± 10	41 ± 15	32 ± 0	35 ± 3	33 ± 7
Liechtenstein	33 ± 10	33 ± 8	39 ± 9	42	53	39 ± 8		46 ± 21
USA	44 ± 17	44 ± 22	37 ± 11	62 ± 8	50 ± 25	31		41 ± 20
Belgium	52 ± 13	29		46	54
Spain	46 ± 8	34	43 ± 7		41 ± 2	43 ± 10	44	40 ± 13
Poland			18	38	52 ± 1	49 ± 13	40 ± 11	39 ± 2
Men
Ethiopia	24 ± 4	26	32 ± 1	23 ± 8	32		28 ± 8	26
Kenya	35 ± 13	28 ± 1	28 ± 3	32 ± 5	29 ± 6	24	27 ± 6	30 ± 2
Austria	41 ± 10	42 ± 11	44 ± 10	43 ± 6	42 ± 8	42 ± 8	42 ± 7	45 ± 9
France	43 ± 9	44 ± 10	42 ± 11	43 ± 10	44 ± 9	42 ± 10	42 ± 10	44 ± 10
Great Britain	41 ± 8	41 ± 11	39 ± 11	41 ± 9	41 ± 9	42 ± 10	41 ± 11	35 ± 8
Germany	44 ± 10	43 ± 9	44 ± 10	43 ± 10	43 ± 10	43 ± 10	44 ± 10	44 ± 10
Italy	41 ± 8	42 ± 8	41 ± 9	47 ± 9	45 ± 12	43 ± 8	46 ± 9	43 ± 12
Japan	48 ± 14	48 ± 14	48 ± 19	49 ± 17	49 ± 17	42 ± 16	46 ± 19	64 ± 7
Switzerland	42 ± 11	42 ± 11	42 ± 11	42 ± 10	42 ± 11	42 ± 10	42 ± 11	42 ± 10
Canada	35 ± 12	42 ± 9	49 ± 8	46 ± 14	41 ± 9		40 ± 7	50 ± 9
Liechtenstein	36 ± 14	42 ± 10	43 ± 5	42 ± 7	37 ± 4	30 ± 4	31 ± 1	42 ± 13
USA	45 ± 10	39 ± 10	41 ± 12	40 ± 9	41 ± 9	36 ± 7	41 ± 13	42 ± 10
Belgium	39 ± 8	38 ± 10	43 ± 11	44 ± 10	48 ± 13	42 ± 12	44 ± 10	42 ± 11
Spain	42 ± 10	47 ± 11	41 ± 9	35 ± 12	40 ± 7	33 ± 6	40 ± 12	44 ± 6
Poland	47 ± 5	38 ± 8	42 ± 14	32 ± 9	38 ± 14	50 ± 16	35 ± 15	56

Data for Non-African runners are sorted in order of the number of finishers of each country

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