National Record is defined as the fastest marathon time set by athletes from a particular country, regardless of where that record is set
Fastest times also includes non-ratified courses such as Boston
No separate subdivisions if they don’t have an entity code in IOC so e.g. Greenland is coloured for ‘Denmark’ and French Guiana for ‘France’; but for example Puerto Rico separately competes
Date of data: after Paris Olympics 2024; 10 Aug 24
*Ryan Hall did run 2:04:58, but it was in Boston which has a slight net downhill and is point-to-point. However, I don’t think anyone would claim it’s a “fast” course relative to somewhere like, say, London or Rotterdam.
It’s settled. I’m moving to Anguilla to destroy that record
What I’m seeing is if I can get Nauru citizenship I’m on for a national record.
What happened to the Cambodian runner??
Quick comment: Shouldn’t Cambodia be Hem Bunting in 2:23 from Paris in 2012, not 2:43? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem_Bunting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem_Bunting)
How is Liberia over 3 hours? There have to be thousands of people that could easily break that there.
this is interesting and all but what I want to see next is a comparison on this and the data (if there are even) from like 100 years ago. Did the whole world get faster the same margin or do some regions fall behind somewhat? How vast are the differences?
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Tool used: ArcGIS
Data source: [tilastopaja.eu](http://tilastopaja.eu)
National Record is defined as the fastest marathon time set by athletes from a particular country, regardless of where that record is set
Fastest times also includes non-ratified courses such as Boston
No separate subdivisions if they don’t have an entity code in IOC so e.g. Greenland is coloured for ‘Denmark’ and French Guiana for ‘France’; but for example Puerto Rico separately competes
Date of data: after Paris Olympics 2024; 10 Aug 24
*Ryan Hall did run 2:04:58, but it was in Boston which has a slight net downhill and is point-to-point. However, I don’t think anyone would claim it’s a “fast” course relative to somewhere like, say, London or Rotterdam.
It’s settled. I’m moving to Anguilla to destroy that record
What I’m seeing is if I can get Nauru citizenship I’m on for a national record.
What happened to the Cambodian runner??
Quick comment: Shouldn’t Cambodia be Hem Bunting in 2:23 from Paris in 2012, not 2:43? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem_Bunting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem_Bunting)
How is Liberia over 3 hours? There have to be thousands of people that could easily break that there.
this is interesting and all but what I want to see next is a comparison on this and the data (if there are even) from like 100 years ago. Did the whole world get faster the same margin or do some regions fall behind somewhat? How vast are the differences?