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

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!

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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	3^rd	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	3^rd	5 Apr 2009
2	2:06:51	Berlin	2^nd	30 Sept 2007
3	2:06:54	WC – Berlin	1^st	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	1^st	19 Apr 2010
2	2:06:23	Frankfurt	2^nd	25 Oct 2009
3	2:07:21	Frankurt	1^st	26 Oct 2008
Average	2:06:32

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Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-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 Athletics 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." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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