Elite marathoners run faster with increasing temperatures in Berlin Marathon The influence of environmental conditions was examined for various marathon races, but not for the Berlin Marathon, the fastest marathon race in the world. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence of environmental conditions such as temperature, precipitation, sunshine and air pressure on the marathoning times at the Berlin Marathon since its first event in the years 1974 to 2019.A total of 882'540 finishers (724'135 male and 158'405 female runners) were analyzed. We conducted analysis regarding the level of performance, with all finishers, the top 3, the top ten and the top 100 women and men were considered.Within the 46 years of the Berlin-Marathon examined, there was no rain in the 18-year rain and in 28 years.At 25 of the outputs, sunshine was prevalent, while the other 21 outputs prevailed the cloud cover.There was no significant time trend with one of the weather variables (no temperature rise over the years). The overall runners became slower with increasing temperature and sunshine duration, but rails of elite runners (Top 3 and Top Ten) to run faster and improved their racing times when the temperature rise, with women improved more than men.Top ten women seemed to benefit more from rising temperatures than top ten men, and male top 100 runners seemed to benefit more from rising temperatures than female top 100 runners.
In summary, it can be said that at marathon runners, who participated between 1974 and 2019 at the Berlin Marathon, rising temperatures and sunshine duration had different effects on various levels of performance in which the overall runners (the general mass of runners) became slower with increasing temperature and sunshine durationWhile elite runners (top 3, top ten) with increasing temperatures where gender differences exist faster. The study is under https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhys.2021.649898/full