Reflecting on Eliud Kipchoge’s Marathon World Record: An Update to Our Model of Cooperative Drafting and Its Potential for a Sub-2-Hour Performance

As sports enthusiasts and scientists, Hoogkamer et al were reminded of many important lessons on the day that Eliud Kipchoge set a new world record in the marathon. On Sep 16, 2018, he ran a time of 2:01:39 in Berlin, eclipsing the previous record by 1 min and 18 s. Two days before the Berlin marath...

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Published in:Sports medicine (Auckland) 2019-02, Vol.49 (2), p.167-170
Main Authors: Hoogkamer, Wouter, Snyder, Kristine L., Arellano, Christopher J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Athletic Performance - physiology
Commentary
Computer simulation
Conflicts of interest
Humans
Kipchoge, Eliud
Male
Marathons
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Models, Biological
Physical Endurance
Physiology
Running
Running - physiology
Sports Medicine
Time Factors
Velocity
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Summary:As sports enthusiasts and scientists, Hoogkamer et al were reminded of many important lessons on the day that Eliud Kipchoge set a new world record in the marathon. On Sep 16, 2018, he ran a time of 2:01:39 in Berlin, eclipsing the previous record by 1 min and 18 s. Two days before the Berlin marathon race was to take place, their paper was accepted, but would not be seen in press until a week later. On the day of the race, Kipchoge not only broke the world record, but he might have also broken the record for outdating a scientific paper. Note that for their simulations of cooperative drafting during marathon running, they used Kipchoge's fastest marathon time as a model input. Their model simulations show that while Kipchoge is substantially faster than any other marathoner in the world, it is still worthwhile for Kipchoge to cooperatively draft so that he can further improve his marathon performance time.
ISSN:0112-1642
1179-2035
DOI:10.1007/s40279-019-01056-2