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Options- Why is the marathon World Record not 2:03:02?
Why exactly is Geoffrey Mutai's 2:03:02 in Boston (2011) not the marathon World Record?
439pjmorse
1 year ago- Just waiting for someone to run faster so the real answer can become, "Because so-and-so ran 2:03:01 in Berlin on $DATE." - pjmorse 439
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Mike Hedman
1 year agoDue to the fact that the Boston course is a net downhill in excess of the limit allowed by the world record setting body.
His time is recognized as the fastest marathon ever...but not the world record.
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J. Winchester
1 year agoThe course for the Boston Marathon does not meet two of the criteria necessary for ratification of world or American records:
- "The start and finish points of a course, measured along a theoretical straight line between them, shall not be further apart than 50% of the race distance." [i.e., 13.1 miles (21.1 km) for the ~26.2 mile (~42.2 km) marathon distance]
- "The decrease in elevation between the start and finish shall not exceed an average of one in a thousand, i.e. 1m per km." [i.e., 42.2 m for the ~42.2 km marathon distance]
The Boston course has an endpoint about 24.3 miles (39 km) from the start point, and the endpoint is also 459 feet (139 m) lower than the start point.
source: wikipedia
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