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Half-marathoners are younger and slower than marathoners.
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- Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Annual Physical Training Plan for Masters +45 Women Half Marathon Athletes: A Guideline Model for Good Practices for Programming Effort Volume and Intensity.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A preliminary exploration of the regression equation for performance in amateur half-marathon runners: a perspective based on respiratory muscle function.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Participation and performance characteristics in half-marathon run: a brief narrative review.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2023Review
- Predictors of half-marathon performance in male recreational athletes.EXCLI journal · 2023Article
- Correlation between Cardiopulmonary Indices and Running Performance in a 14.5 km Endurance Running Event.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Benefits on Hematological and Biochemical Parameters of a High-Intensity Interval Training Program for a Half-Marathon in Recreational Middle-Aged Women Runners.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Changes in segment coordination variability and the impacts of the lower limb across running mileages in half marathons: Implications for running injuries.Journal of sport and health science · 2022Article
- No Trends in the Age of Peak Performance among the Best Half-Marathoners and Marathoners in the World between 1997-2020.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Development and Validation of Prediction Equation of "Athens Authentic Marathon" Men's Race Speed.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Training for a (half-)marathon: Training volume and longest endurance run related to performance and running injuries.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2020Article
- Post-Exercise Hypotension and Reduced Cardiac Baroreflex after Half-Marathon Run: In Men, but Not in Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Participation and Performance Trends in the Oldest 100-km Ultramarathon in the World.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Inter-Individual Different Responses to Continuous and Interval Training in Recreational Middle-Aged Women Runners.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Performance and Pacing of Age Groups in Half-Marathon and Marathon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Influence of speed and heel-to-toe drop in running shoes for female recreational runners: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2019Article
- Pacing of Women and Men in Half-Marathon and Marathon Races.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Age and performance trends of elite and recreational marathoners are well investigated, but not for half-marathoners. We analysed age and performance trends in 508,108 age group runners (125,894 female and 328,430 male half-marathoners and 10,205 female and 43,489 male marathoners) competing between 1999 and 2014 in all flat half-marathons and marathons held in Switzerland using single linear regression analyses, mixed-effects regression analyses and analyses of variance. The number of women and men increased across years in both half-marathons and marathons. There were 12.3 times more female half-marathoners than female marathoners and 7.5 times more male half-marathoners than male marathoners. For both half-marathons and marathons, most of the female and male finishers were recorded in age group 40-44 years. In half-marathons, women (10.29 ± 3.03 km/h) were running 0.07 ± 0.06 km/h faster (p < 0.001) than men (10.22 ± 3.06 km/h). Also in marathon, women (14.77 ± 4.13 km/h) were running 0.28 ± 0.16 km/h faster (p < 0.001) than men (14.48 ± 4.07 km/h). In marathon, women (42.18 ± 10.63 years) were at the same age than men (42.06 ± 10.45 years) (p > 0.05). Also in half-marathon, women (41.40 ± 10.63 years) were at the same age than men (41.31 ± 10.30 years) (p > 0.05). However, women and men marathon runners were older than their counterpart half-marathon runners (p < 0.001). In summary, (1) more athletes competed in half-marathons than in marathons, (2) women were running faster than men, (3) half-marathoners were running slower than marathoners, and (4) half-marathoners were younger than marathoners.
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