Wow!
The 2024 London Marathon was run yesterday (sure, identical week because the Boston Marathon) and it got here with a World File!
It was a “ladies’s solely” World File, which implies a file obtained in a race with out male pacemakers.
The “conventional” ladies World File belongs to Tigst Assefa with a time of two:11:53 – so roughly 4 minutes quicker.
The male race was received by Alexander Munyao in a time of two:04:01.
5 out of 6 podiums locations had been taken by adidas’ athletes
In some of the necessary marathons of the 12 months, presumably the preferred in Europe, the rostrum was nearly utterly cleaned by adidas’ athletes.
Except for Kenesisa Bekele, who run in a pair of Anta sneakers, 4 of the 6 high spots had been claimed by runners sporting adidas newest marathon racer: the Adios Professional Evo 1; the $500 shoe that apparently can solely be worn for one race earlier than dropping its traits.
One other adidas claims place 3 within the ladies’s race, and it’s adidas earlier high marathon racer, the Adios Professional 3 which was launched in 2022.
The place was Nike in all this? It’s such a brand new feeling not seeing any of the Oregon model’s sneakers on the rostrum.
Originally of the week in Boston, we noticed the Adidas Professional Evo 1 win the lads’s race, with the Nike Alphafly 3 in second place and the adidas Adios Professional 3 in third. Within the ladies’s race, a brand new race prototype from On received the race, with Below Armour and Puma claiming the second and third place respectively.
As regular the query is identical: are the remainder of the supershoes catching up with Nike (who used to dominate the podiums only a few years in the past), or just different manufacturers are more and more signing extra aggressive runners of their roster?
What do you assume? What shoe would you put on to beat your PR this 12 months?
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