Marathon Records (women)

[PCSExponent]

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As a complete fanboy of Radcliffe, I couldn't help but let the inner conspiracy theorist get the better of me for a sec and speculated about the possibility that PR gave the IAAF a green light to do this before her run in Berlin on Sunday. Then I remembered this was 2011 and Radcliffe is probably closer to a nursing home than 2:15 :lol:

[Conor Dary]

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There once was a time when we had only World Bests in the marathon and that seemed to cause no problem. Then the IAAF gets involved and chaos ensues.

[lonewolf]

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Given the differences in marathon courses, WB seems about all you could ask for.

[Conor Dary]

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Given the differences in marathon courses, WB seems about all you could ask for.

Exactly. Add in fickle weather conditions and it all gets silly.

[kuha]

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Absolutely. No two marathon races can ever truly be "the same"; every one comes with it's own, unique *, which is just fine. The attempt to jam all these odd-shaped pegs into a standard "WR" round hole is completely misguided.

[Ned Ryerson]

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However, in Geb's 12:39 WR where he beat Komon

Komen wasn't an entrant in Geb's 12:39.36 WR run.

[PCSExponent]

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Probably referred to Zurich 1997, 12:41.86. My favourite long distance race of all time, for obvious reasons

[SQUACKEE]

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Absolutely. No two marathon races can ever truly be "the same"; every one comes with it's own, unique *, which is just fine. The attempt to jam all these odd-shaped pegs into a standard "WR" round hole is completely misguided.

Absolutley agree, how can you have a worlds record in anything if every particular event location might be completely different. What is odd is 2:15 was called a world record and now 2:17 is called a world record when neither of them actually are.