On Friday, October 31, 2008, at 07:26 PM, Uri Goldbourt wrote:
Gebrselassie took that question off the books with his marathon world record of 2:07.16 ???
Sorry--shouldn't try to do this sort of thing between visits of Hallowe'en tricks-or-treaters. As I wrote earlier in that paragraph, the 2:07.16 was Gharib's Olympic silver medal. Gebrselassie's world record was 2:03.59!
Another marathon bit: The greatest number of masters on any world list was the men's 102 in a total list of 1065. There were fewer masters women on their marathon list (75) but a higher proportion of the total list of 680.
