Talk:Marathon world best progression

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This page need work! It implies that before Paula Radcliffe the world record was over 3 hours for women... Kokiri 11:27, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Check this out: Marathonguide. Kokiri 11:30, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Was a work in progress, it should be complete now, thanks for the help, it was taking some time to complete. Please fix any errors, there are a few town's that I didn't know which country they were in, I took a guess and put question marks around them. Please correct or confirm if anyone knows. Tridy 04:45, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] "South Korea" in 35/47

I understand the political sensitivities here, but we have the record holders from 1935 and 1947 as being from "South Korea", a state that did not exist at the time. Historical lists like these usually use contemporary place names (for instance, Sergey Popov is listed as being from the Soviet Union, rather than Russia). Can we just use "Korea" or some such term? Or "Japanese-occupied Korea" for the first? --Jfruh (talk) 19:31, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I changed the reference for Sohn Kee-chung to the "Empire of Japan", and the 1947 reference to "South Korea" seems to be perfectly correct. Conscious 08:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
South Korea wasn't formally constituted until 1948. There seems to have been some sort of provisional government under US occupation as early as 1945, though.. --Jfruh (talk) 13:58, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just four minutes to go?

The article could contain some discussion whether a sub-2hour marathon run is humanly possible with or without using banned boosting substances. 91.83.16.115 21:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chronology

Sequence of dates in 1909 looks funny: February, May, then February again. GregorB (talk) 21:44, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The second February date was wrong: it was May 26, in fact. GregorB (talk) 21:58, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adrienne Beames

Unless we can find a reliable source that contradicts the current reference at [1], I'm reluctant to change the table to add Adrienne Beames' 1971 time. I'm not sure why Beames isn't listed at the runtheplanet site, but note that the article [2] says that the course Beames ran was suspected of being short. — Myasuda (talk) 02:01, 21 May 2008 (UTC)