In comparing U.S. records, in what running events are women proportionally closest to men? Sprints? Distances? See list.

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    9 years ago 03/23/2015 7:47pm EDT

    This list was dropped into a spreadsheet and calculated by formula. Women are consistently around 13% slower than men in most events.

    Event / Men / --------------------- Women / --------------- % slower

    100 - 9.69 Tyson Gay / 10.61 Florence Griffith Joyner - 09%

    200 - 19.32 Michael Johnson / 21.34 Florence Joyner - 10%

    400 - 43.18 Michael Johnson / 48.70 Sanya Richards - 13%

    800 - 1.42.60 Johnny Gray / 1:56.40 Jearl Miles Clark - 13%

    1500 - 3.29.30 Bernard Lagat / 3:57.12 Mary Slaney - 13%

    Mile Run - 3.46.91 Alan Webb / 4:16.71 Mary Slaney - 13%

    3000m - 7.29.00 Bernard Lagat / 8:25.83 Mary Slaney 13%

    5000 - 12.53.60 Bernard Lagat / 14:42.64 Molly Huddle - 14%

    10K - 26.44.36 Galen Rupp / 30:22.22 Shalane Flanagan 14%

    1/2 Marathon - 59.43 Ryan Hall / 1:07.34 Deena Kastor - 13%

    Mar - 2.05.38 Khalid Khannouchi / 2:19:36 Deena Kastor 11%

  • word nurd

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    9 years ago 03/23/2015 8:23pm EDT
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    6/10 is considered "consistent"???

  • needmoredigits

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    9 years ago 03/23/2015 8:52pm EDT
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    Can you go out a couple more decimal points?

  • call me dirty

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    9 years ago 03/23/2015 11:03pm EDT
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    Huddle and Flanagan might be the only clean runners on that list.

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    9 years ago 03/24/2015 12:19am EDT
    re: word nurd

    word nurd wrote:

    6/10 is considered "consistent"???

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    I said "around" 13% and would consider anything within 2 percentage points of the mean as pretty consistent. The Flo Jo times are out of that range and suspect. She, Marion Jones and Carmelita Jeter ran the 10 fastest American times in the 100 between them.

  • are you f*cking stupid?

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    9 years ago 03/24/2015 12:27am EDT
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    There is no pattern. All I see is a random spread of data points. Are you sure you know how to science?

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    9 years ago 03/24/2015 12:45am EDT
    re: Clear view

    With the world records the women are a bit closer. This means American women are even slower than American men.

    FE Huddle is about twice as far off the 5000 wr as Lagat is. Slaney is more than twice as far off the 3000 record. Clark is twice as far from the WR as Gray is. Kastor nearly twice as far off as Hall.

    Only 3 US-held world records total anymore. America is beaten.

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    are you f*cking stupid? wrote:

    There is no pattern. All I see is a random spread of data points. Are you sure you know how to science?

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    The spreadsheet simply calculated the percentage difference between the men's and women's times in each event. Nothing complicated, but the advertising on LetsRun messed up the formatting of the graph. I've added two more decimal spaces below.

    Event / Men / --------------------- Women / --------------- % slower

    100 - 9.69 Tyson Gay / 10.61 Florence Griffith Joyner - 09.49%

    200 - 19.32 Michael Johnson / 21.34 Florence Joyner - 10.46%

    400 - 43.18 Michael Johnson / 48.70 Sanya Richards - 12.78%

    800 - 1.42.60 Johnny Gray / 1:56.40 Jearl Miles Clark - 13.22%

    1500 - 3.29.30 Bernard Lagat / 3:57.12 Mary Slaney - 13.29%

    Mile Run - 3.46.91 Alan Webb / 4:16.71 Mary Slaney - 13.13%

    3000m - 7.29.00 Bernard Lagat / 8:25.83 Mary Slaney 12.66%

    5000 - 12.53.60 Bernard Lagat / 14:42.64 Molly Huddle - 14.10%

    10K - 26.44.36 Galen Rupp / 30:22.22 Shalane Flanagan 13.58%

    1/2 Marathon - 59.43 Ryan Hall / 1:07.34 Deena Kastor - 13.15%

    Mar - 2.05.38 Khalid Khannouchi / 2:19:36 Deena Kastor 11.12%

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    9 years ago 03/24/2015 4:58am EDT
    re: Clear view

    In the jumping events the differences are larger and more variable.

    Event ------ Men / Women -%shorter

    long jump - 8.95 / 7.49 -- 16.31%

    3 x jump - 18.09 / 14.45 - 20.12%

    high jump - 2.4 / 2.05 ---- 14.58%

    polevault - 6.04 / 4.92 --- 18.54%

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