Reusser Marlen, Sousa Caio Victor, Villiger Elias, Alvero Cruz José Ramón, Hill Lee, Rosemann Thomas, Nikolaidis Pantelis T, Knechtle Beat
Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
Front Physiol. 2021 Jun 28;12:631237. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.631237. eCollection 2021.
The aspect of participation and performance trends in marathon running has been investigated mainly in marathons held in the United States of America (e.g., "New York City Marathon," "Boston Marathon"), but not for the fastest course in the world, the "Berlin Marathon" held in Berlin, Germany. This study aimed to examine trends in participation and performance in the "Berlin Marathon" on all its previous 46 editions from 1974 to 2019, the largest dataset ever studied in this event with 696,225 finishers (after data cleaning). Athletes in all age groups increased their participation, except for male athletes aged 20-49 years and athletes of both sexes above 79 years of age. This overall increase in participation was more pronounced in women, but still, there are more men than women participating in "Berlin Marathon" nowadays. All age group athletes decreased their performance across years overall, whereas the top ten recreational athletes improved their performance over the years. Our findings improved the knowledge about the evolution of male and female marathoners across calendar years, especially for the fastest marathon race in the world, the "Berlin Marathon."
马拉松比赛中参与情况和成绩趋势方面的研究主要集中在美国举办的马拉松赛事（如“纽约市马拉松赛”“波士顿马拉松赛”），但尚未涉及世界上最快赛道——德国柏林举办的“柏林马拉松赛”。本研究旨在考察1974年至2019年期间“柏林马拉松赛”此前46届赛事的参与情况和成绩趋势，这是该赛事有史以来规模最大的数据集，共有696,225名完赛者（数据清理后）。除20至49岁的男性运动员以及79岁以上的男女运动员外，所有年龄组的运动员参与度均有所提高。这种参与度的总体增长在女性中更为明显，但如今参加“柏林马拉松赛”的男性仍然多于女性。所有年龄组的运动员多年来总体成绩均有所下降，而排名前十的业余运动员成绩则逐年提高。我们的研究结果增进了对历年男女马拉松运动员发展变化的了解，特别是对于世界上最快的马拉松赛事“柏林马拉松赛”。
