Sex- and age-related differences in half-marathon performance and competitiveness in the world’s largest half-marathon – the GöteborgsVarvet The age for the best marathon time resp.The time when it is over with the fastest marathon has been well investigated. Although the marathon is very popular, more people worldwide run a half marathon than a marathon.We now analyzed 138'616 runners who run by 2014-2016 the ‘Gothenburgsvarvet’, which is considered the largest half marathon in the world.
It came out that women earlier their best marathon period earlier than men in the age group <35 years as well as 35-39 years while men achieve the best time only in the age group 35-39 years. All data can be found under https://www.standfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15438627.2017.1393749