The phenomenon Ed Whitlock The Canadian Ed Whitlock was born in 1931 and will be 83 years old this year.That is basically not so special. But Ed Whitlock is the first person who has run at over 70 years another marathon under 3 hours, which was in 2003 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon with 2:59:10, see https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20801744/ed-whitlock/. 1 year ago, at the age of 82 he went the marathon in 3:41:58 and set a world record, see https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20808473/ed-whitlock-runs-3-41-marathon-at-age-82/. In the course of his life, he has so far run 11 age history in the marathon, with 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 81, and 82 years, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25120915/.
It can be assumed that it will set up to 100 still a number of age specimens.