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Have you ever wondered as a runner how men and women compare in their world records in everything from a 100-meter run to a marathon and beyond?

An easy way to do this kind of comparison is to take each of the popular running distances, get the men’s world record time and women’s world record time for that distance, and compare those two times to get a percentage advantage for one group versus the other group for that distance.

According to the most recent statistics, mostly from the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), this shows how much faster men with world records are than women with world records. Each difference is calculated as 100% of the times (female duration minus male duration) divided by female duration. For example, 100 meters away, Usain Bolt’s world record is 9.50% faster than Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world record.

Initials: The letter “m” refers to meters (“metros”). The letter “K” stands for kilometers (“kilometers”). “10,000 m” refers to track races; “10K” refers to road racing.

  • 9.50% in 100 m: 9.58 (U. Bolt, 2009) vs. 10.49 (F. Griffith-Joyner, 1988)
  • 11.20% in 200 m: 19.19 (U. Bolt, 2009) vs. 21.34 (F. Griffith-Joyner, 1988)
  • 10.24% in 400 m: 43.18 (M. Johnson, 1999) vs. 47.60 (M. Koch, 1985)
  • 12.04% in 800 m: 1: 41,11 (W. Kipketer, 1997) vs. 1: 53,28 (J. Kratochvilova, 1983)
  • 11.87% in 1500 m: 3: 26.00 (H. El Guerroujm 1998) vs. 3: 50,46 (Y. Qu, 1993)
  • 13.19% in 1 mile: 3: 43.13 (H. El Guerrouj, 1999) vs. 4: 12.56 (S. Masterkova, 1996)
  • 10.31% at 3000 m: 7: 20,67 (D. Komen, 1996) vs. 8: 06.11 (J. Wang, 1993)
  • 12.39% in 5000 m: 12: 37.35 (K. Bekele, 2004) vs. 14: 11.15 (T. Dibaba, 2008)
  • 12.31% in 10,000 m: 26: 17.53 (K. Bekele, 2005) vs. 29: 31,78 (J. Wang, 1993)
  • 12.34% in 10,000: 27:01 (MK Kogo, 2009) vs. 30:21 (P. Radcliffe, 2003)
  • 12.01% in 15,000: 41:29 (F. Limo, 2001) vs. 46.28 (T. Dibaba, 2009)
  • 13.73% in 20,000: 55:21 (Z. Tadese, 2010) vs. 1: 02.57 (L. Kiplagat, 2007)
  • 13.76% in Half Marathon: 58:23 (Z. Tadese, 2010) vs. 1:06:25 (L. Kiplagat, 2007)
  • 11.21% in 25,000: 1:11:50 (SK Kosgei, 2010) vs. 1: 19.53 (MJ Keitany, 2010)
  • 12.53% in 30,000: 1:27:49 (H. Gebrselassie, 2009) vs. 1: 38.49 (M. Noguchi, 2005)
  • 9.22% in Marathon: 2:03:59 (H. Gebrselassie, 2008) vs. 2:15:25 (P. Radcliffe, 2003)
  • 5.26% in 100,000: 6:13:33 (T. Sunada, 1998) vs. 6:33:11 (T. Abe, 2000)

Two interesting patterns are noteworthy. First, most of the male records were set after most of the corresponding female records were set. Second, the three smallest differences are found in the shortest distance (100 m) and the two longest distances (marathon and 100 km).

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