Performance and age of African and non-African runners in half- and full marathons held in Switzerland, 2000–2010 So far, there is known that top runners at international marathons achieve their best time at the age of just 30 years.Since the big marathons are dominated by African runners, we do not know if there is an age difference between African and non-African runners. For this reason, we have analyzed all half marathons for a country (Switzerland) over the period 2000 to 2010 as well as all marathon with the question of whether the African top runners are disciples than non-African top runners. In the half-marathon, the non-African men were older and slower than the African men.About the marathon track showed the same result where the differences were even more pronounced.In the women, however, no difference was shown on the half marathon route
Age and competition time between African and non-African top runners.On the marathon track, the Africans were younger than the non-African runners, but the Africans were not faster. The whole work can be found under https://www.dovepress.com/performance-and-age-of-african-and-non-african-runners-in-half–and-fu-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-oajsm