Relationship between age and elite marathon race time in world single age records from 5 to 93 years In addition to the official world record for women and men over the marathon route, a list is also led by the world records for each year of life from 5 to 93 years.We have now examined how the marathon time can develop in the course of life. If you graphically represents the marathon world records, this is a U-shaped curve. From 5 years to 20 years comes to an increasing improvement where 5-15 years boys and girls create about the same time.Between 20 and 35, the curve is quite linear, from 35 years, it comes to a deterioration of the time with increasing age.The difference between the sexes increases from 5 years to 20 years, remains at about 20 minutes between 20 and 50 years and then increases with increasing age.
At 49 years, the difference with 7.5% (10 minutes) is lowest. All graphics and numbers can be found under https://bmcsportscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2052-1847-6-31