114 BAA Boston Marathon: Just the Stats, by K. Ken Nakamura, Note by Larry Eder

By Larry Eder on April 19, 2010 12:22 PM
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The 114th version of the Boston Marathon has been a great race! The women's race was tremendously close, and the men's race was one for the record books. Our sport's top marathon statistician, K. Ken Nakamura has provided the real geek stuff! Read, worship, read, worship, then run!

You all know that Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot broke the course record at Boston marathon. 

Other interesting stats are: 

Tekeste Kebede (2:07:23) is the fifth fastest in the Boston Marathon 
As you can see from the list below, Kebede missed fastest second place time in Boston by four seconds. 

Boston Marathon All Time list

Performances

Time

Performers

Name

Nat

Place

Date

1

2:05:52

1

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot

KEN

1

19 Apr 2010

2

2:07:14

2

Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot

KEN

1

17 Apr 2006

3

2:07:15

3

Cosmas Ndeti

KEN

1

18 Apr 1994

4

2:07:19

4

Andres Espinosa

MEX

2

18 Apr 1994

5

2:07:23

5

Tekeste Kebede

ETH

2

19 Apr 2010

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot is fourth fastest in US All Comers List 

 US All-Comers List

Performances

Time

Performers

Name

Nat

Place

 

Date

1

2:05:41

1

Samuel Wanjiru

KEN

1

Chicago

11 Oct 2009

2

2:05:42

2

Khalid Khannouchi

MAR

1

Chicago

24 Oct 1999

3

2:05:50

3

Evans Rutto

KEN

1

Chicago

12 Oct 2003

4

2:05:52

4

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot

KEN

1

Boston

19 Apr 2010

5

2:05:56

 

Khalid Khannouchi

USA

1

Chicago

13 Oct 2002


The average of three fastest marathons for Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot is 2:06:32

Fastest marathon runners based on the average of their top three performances since 2007

Haile Gebrselassie

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:03:59

Berlin

1

28 Sept 2008

2

2:04:26

Berlin

1

30 Sept 2007

3

2:04:53

Dubai

1

18 Jan 2008

Average

2:04:26

 

 

 

 

Samuel Wanjiru

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:05:10

London

1

26 Apr 2009

2

2:05:24

London

2

13 Apr 2008

3

2:05:41

Chicago

1

11 Oct 2009

Average

2:05:25

 

 

 

 

Tsegaye Kebede

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:05:18

Fukuoka

1

6 Dec 2009

2

2:05:20

London

2

26 Apr 2009

3

2:06:10

Fukuoka

1

7 Dec 2008

Average

2:05:36

 

 

 

 

Vincent Kipruto

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:05:13

Rotterdam

3rd

11 Apr 2010

2

2:05:47

Paris

1

5 Apr 2009

3

2:06:08

Chicago

3

11 Oct 2009

Average

2:05:43

 

 

 

 

Abel Kirui

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:05:04

Rotterdam

3rd

5 Apr 2009

2

2:06:51

Berlin

2nd

30 Sept 2007

3

2:06:54

WC - Berlin

1st

22 Aug 2009

Average

2:06:16

 

 

 

 

Abderrahim Goumri

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:05:30

London

3

13 Apr 2008

2

2:06:04

Chicago

2

11 Oct 2009

3

2:07:44

London

2

22 Apr 2007

Average

2:06:26

 

 

 

 

Emmanuel Mutai   

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:06:15

London

4

13 Apr 2008

2

2:06:29

Amsterdam

1

21 Oct 2007

3

2:06:53

London

4

26 Apr 2009

Average

2:06:32

 

 

 

 

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot 

 

Time

Race

Place

Date

1

2:05:52

Boston

1st

19 Apr 2010

2

2:06:23

Frankfurt

2nd

25 Oct 2009

3

2:07:21

Frankurt

1st

26 Oct 2008

Average

2:06:32

 

 

 


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Larry Eder

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Bio: Larry Eder has had a 44 year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub 4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Track & Field to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself."

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