Avocado's Number wrote: But as a sidelight, I'm curious about the above "official marathon record progression." Salazar's Fukuoka performance in 1983 has long been listed as unvalidatable. See
http://www.usatf.org/statistics/all-time/Marathon/men.asp. For that reason, I thought that Petersen, Lawson, and Morris held the "official" U.S. records before Khannouchi became a U.S. citizen. Am I missing something?
You've jarred the rust off of my fetid brain. I recall the same thing, that Pat Petersens 2:10:04 (off of memory) was the official AR for many years. I'm not sure what the issue with Fukuoka was about...