> In fact, Ndereba's time compares far less favorably with the men's record
than Florence Griffith-Joyner's 100m >record stacks up against Maurice
Greene's mark.
> Men Women Difference
> 100 metres 9.79 10.49 7.2%
> 200 metres 19.32 21.34 10.5%
> 400 metres 43.18 47.6 10.2%
> 800 metres 01:41.1 1.53.28 12.6%
> 1500 metres 03:26.0 3.50.46 11.9%
> 5000 metres 12.39.36 14.28.09 14.3%
> 10000 metres 26:22.7 29.31.78 11.9%
> Marathon 2:05:42 2.18.47 10.4%
As I mentioned earlier, the ratified "bests" in the ultra distances indicate
that women's records are even worse than men as the distances get longer.
As I said in a post last week, this is probably due to small field sizes,
but the evidence of performances certainly do not bear out any of the
fallacious theories on this:
Men Women Difference
50 kilos 2:43:38 3:08:39 15.3%
50 miles 4:50:51 5:40:18 17.0%
100 kilos 6:16:41 7:00:48 11.7%
24 hours 290.2K 243.6K 19.1%
Note that the most commonly run, international championship distance of 100
kilos has a separation right around the average of the shorter distances.
- Ed Parrot
