Noguchi got two en route records at Berlin...

[MJD]

...which begs the obvious question. Explained in an IAAF article on the front page.

[kuha]

Re: Noguchi got two en route records at Berlin...

Right. It's nice that MN got these PRs, which are also WBs, but why in the world don't the WBs belong to PR?

[Jon]

Re: Noguchi got two en route records at Berlin...

>but why in the world don't the WBs belong to PR?



Because the parts of the London course where the 25km and 30km markers are, there's a net drop which exceeds the set limit. Of course, the last few miles of the full marathon course are slightly uphill so that the overall course is legal, but Paula misses out on the official WBs.

Her bests for those distances are 1:20:36 and 1:36:36 (compared to Noguchi's 1:22:12 and 1:38:48).

[kuha]

Re: Noguchi got two en route records at Berlin...

OK, should have read that story a little closer... But can it really be true that at the 30k mark at London, the course is 30 meters below the start line? That's 100 feet, which I would think would put the 30k mark at the bottom of the Thames...

[Powell]

Re: Noguchi got two en route records at Berlin...

Isn't it just a question of London not having OFFICIAL timing at the 25k and 30k marks?

[MJD]

Re: Noguchi got two en route records at Berlin...

Wouldn't matter anyway because of the elevation drop.

[MJD]

David Monti reports that Kastor broke both of these times in Chicago but they weren't hand-timed and they also weren't certified.

[kuha]

So...the bottom line appears to be that these two "official" records as just about meaningless.

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