The world records for both the 100m sprint and the marathon indicate that over both distances, the fastest man is faster than the fastest woman.
Over which of those distances is the women’s record closest to the men’s record? (We mean proportionally.)
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There is probably not much in it, but I’d say the marathon records are relatively closer.
(But what impresses me so much is the sustained 100m speed of a top flight marathon runner. It is something like 18 seconds per 100, done 420 consecutive times. Take that, Usain!)
Well you had a 50/50 chance, and picked the wrong half.
But your point on the patheticness of Usain Bolt is well taken. Apparently he’s never run a mile in his life.
The Men’s Marathon record is 2:02:57 or 7377 sec in Berlin in 2014 by Kimetto; the women’s is 8125 by Paula Radcliffe in London. She took 10.14% longer. For 100 metres the woman took 9.5% longer. So the difference is greater proportionally for the Marathon.
Old Bill
All the athletics records are pretty close, but the 100m is the closest.