{"id":76854,"date":"2025-05-03T06:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/?p=76854"},"modified":"2025-05-03T06:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:35:06","slug":"just-for-the-record-a-column-by-len-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/features\/just-for-the-record-a-column-by-len-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for the record | A column by Len Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you know a bit about Australian marathon history, you will recall that Lisa Ondieki is our only Olympic marathon medallist. Her silver medal in Seoul in 1988 behind the great Rosa Mota is the only medal attained by an Australian at the Olympics. Robert de Castella and Steve Moneghetti share the highest place by an Australian male with fifth in 1984 and 1988 respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dig a little deeper and you will discover that at the start of the Seoul Olympic year Ondieki (she was Lisa Martin then) set an Australian record 2:23:51 in winning the Osaka women\u2019s marathon, a record which stood for just short of 19 years until Benita Willis broke it in 2006 and which was further improved by Sinead Diver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What you may not have known, however, is that Ondieki\u2019s performance was regarded by some as a world record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How so, you ask, given that Ingrid Kristiansen, Joan Benoit and Mota had all run faster: Kristiansen held the world best with her 2:21:06 in London in 1985. The reason why many of us back then thought of Ondieki\u2019s time as a world record was that it was set in a women\u2019s race on a loop course while the others were run in mixed fields in London and Chicago. Furthermore, because the London race started in Blackheath and ended on London Bridge (it\u2019s much the same now except it finishes on The Mall), it was regarded as point-to-point.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76856\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76856\" src=\"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited-696x477.jpg 696w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/gettyimages-824143550-1024x1024-Edited-613x420.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOKYO, JAPAN &#8211; NOVEMBER 20: Valentina Yegorova (R) of Russia, Lisa Martin-Ondieki (C) of Australia and Sachiyo Seiyama (L) of Japan compete the 15th Tokyo International Women&#8217;s Marathon on November 20, 1994 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although many famous traditional marathons \u2013 Boston, London\u2019s earlier Windsor to Chiswick course on which Jim Peters set three world bests \u2013 were point-to-point, as the marathon moved to official world record status loop or out-and-back courses were the only ones accepted as world-record or world-best-eligible. That\u2019s changed now, with the requirement being that the start and finish do not have to be at the same point but can be separated by no more than half-the distance. By amazing coincidence, that made London and New York record-eligible! Boston, which is by no means a fast course, is not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relatively short history of women\u2019s marathoning was given impetus not by the marathon\u2019s adoption as a championship race, but rather by the gradual entry of women into mass participation races. Going way back, some pioneers were allowed to start before the men in some of the traditional races. Others ran by subterfuge. Roberta Gibb snuck into the Boston field one year then Kathy Switzer obtained an official bib by entering as \u2018K.Switzer.\u2019 The 1982 European championships staged a women\u2019s marathon \u2013 won by Mota \u2013 Grete Waitz won the first world championships race in Helsinki in 1983 and Benoit triumphed in the first women\u2019s Olympic marathon in Los Angeles in 1984.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the International Amateur Athletic Association (now World Athletics) adopted world records for the marathon it recognised that most women\u2019s performances came in mixed mass-participation races so it made no sense to deem such performances ineligible for record purposes. The official women\u2019s world record is that thunderclap 2:09:56 by Ruth Chepngetich in Chicago last year. But World Athletics does still give recognition to the best performance in women-only competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76857\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76857\" src=\"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ruth-Chicago.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Chepngetich shatters women\u2019s world record with 2:09:56 in Chicago. A\/P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That record stood at 2:16:16 to Peres Jepchirchir, set in London last year. Paris Olympic silver medallist Tigst Assefa won this year\u2019s London in 2:15:50, beating Joyciline Jepkosgei and Olympic champion Sifan Hassan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">London has made something of a specialty of the women-only world record since race organisers generously allowed Paula Radcliffe a shot at world record bonus payments following her 2:15:25. The last four improvements have all come in London, Radcliffe winning again in 2:17:42 in 2005, Mary Keitany leaving the pacemakers and everyone else behind with her 2:17:01 in 2017 before Jepchirchir and Assefa in the past two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concept of a women\u2019s world record set in women-only races is well worth preserving replicating, as it does, what happens in championship racing. And the quality of the record-holders is undeniable dating back to Lisa Ondieki\u2019s Olympic silver medal credentials. Paula Radcliffe was a world record breaker. She won the Helsinki 2005 world championship from defending champion Catherine Ndereba. Peres Jepchirchir is the Tokyo Olympic champion and Tigst Assefa was runner-up in Paris last year and set the previous world record at 2:11:53 in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no mugs among that lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another world best also caught the eye last weekend. That was the 33.05 for 300 metres hurdles set by 4000 hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm in the opening Diamond League in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22175\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22175\" src=\"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003-825x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003-768x953.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003-696x863.jpg 696w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003-339x420.jpg 339w, https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IAAFWCday6_003.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LONDON, ENGLAND &#8211; AUGUST 09: Karsten Warholm of Norway reacts after winning gold in the Men&#8217;s 400 metres hurdles final during day six of the 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships London 2017 at The London Stadium on August 9, 2017 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty Images for IAAF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s pretty good. In fact, it\u2019s better than the previous world best of 33.26 set by \u2013 checks notes \u2013 well, it was Warholm in 2021. That was in Oslo\u2019s Bislett Stadium (but not the Oslo DL) in a warm-up for his 46.70 world record 400 hurdles when the DL meeting did take place a few weeks later. A diligent correspondent for the Athletics International newsletter did put together a world-time list which went all of seven places deep and all the way to a David Hemery (1968 Olympic champ) in London in 1972. For all intents and purposes, though, the history of the 300 hurdles is pretty much the history of Warholm\u2019s participation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, it\u2019s with some surprise you read a report that World Athletics will be granting the time-honoured \u2018300 sticks\u2019 world record status. Seems like an idea dreamed up on a quiet day in the innovations department. Anyway, as noted, Warholm went on to break the 400 hurdles world record in his very next race back in 2021 which should make his debut over the full lap in the second China DL in Shanghai\/Keqiao this weekend (3 May) very interesting indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know a bit about Australian marathon history, you will recall that Lisa Ondieki is our only Olympic marathon medallist. Her silver medal in Seoul in 1988 behind the great Rosa Mota is the only medal attained by an Australian at the Olympics. 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