Performance of Kenyan athletes in mountain versus flat marathon running - An example in Switzerland
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Date
2013
Authors
Clemens, Harm
Beat, Knechtle
Christoph, Alexander Rüst
Thomas, Rosemann
Romuald, Lepers
Onywera, V.O.
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Universidad de Alicante, Facultad de Educación
Abstract
Harm, C., Knechtle, B., Rüst, A.C., Rosemann, T., Lepers, R. & Onywera, V. (2013). Performance of
Kenyan athletes in mountain versus flat marathon running - An example in Switzerland. J. Hum. Sport
Exerc., 8(4), pp.881-893. The purpose of this study was to compare running performance of Kenyans in a
flat city marathon and a mountain marathon in Switzerland. Running times of top three overall Kenyan
runners were compared with running times of top three overall runners of other nations in a mountain and a
flat marathon held in Switzerland between 2003 and 2011. In the mountain marathon top three male
Kenyans achieved with 199±23min the 11th fastest running time behind athletes from Italy (177±1min),
Switzerland (179±0min), France (186±5min), Great Britain (189±3min), Mexico (189±3min), Germany
(192±5min), Czech Republic (195±13min), Morocco (195±7min), USA (196±6min) and Hungary
(198±8min). Female Kenyan athletes did not even participate in the mountain marathon. In the city
marathon top three male Kenyan athletes achieved the second fastest running time (130±1min) behind
Swiss athletes (129±1min), Kenyan female runners had the fifth fastest running time (158±4min) behind
athletes from Russia (153±2min), Ethiopia (154±2min), Switzerland (155±2min) and Poland (155±4min).
To summarize, in Switzerland, Kenyans achieved not the fastest running times in a mountain marathon
while they attained the second fastest running times in flat marathon. K
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Keywords
East Africa, Altitude, Mountain, Long-distance run
Citation
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise vol 8 issue 4 2013