Congratulations to today’s marathon winner Sara Hall!

Sara Hall’s Age Grade Performance today was 97.59%, which was an equivalent performance to 2:17:22.54.

This Age Grade performance was based on the recently released 2023 WMA factors, using the online calculator found here:

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Masters Athletics Age Grading Calculator

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An age grading calculator for Masters Athletics based on the 2023 WMA Age Grading Tables

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Let’s wait and see if Sara’s performance today ends up as the top Age Grade performance, across all events, in these World Championships, m’kay?

Whatever time I put in the calculator it says

That would be a world record.

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That calculator is pretty simple to use. If you are still having difficulty, provide your gender, time and event and I’ll try to help.

“WMA Proposed Age Grading Tables”

“Age Grading factors are used to compare a master’s performance to the open world record, i.e. a male athlete with a 100% age grade in 100m means he ran an age adjusted time of 9.58 and a female ran 10.49.

“The Age Grade Update Committee used millions of performances to establish the factors for each event at each age for men and women. They also compared the factors with performances by individual athletes over many decades of competition to confirm that factors were valid.“

It's already not that.

Which athlete/event(s) has a higher value?

Yeah, I just checked, SAP gets top honors in her 100m event, and will probably win the a Age Grade across all events.

There's also that Ryan Crouser fella.

Age grading is a joke.

Thanks, I haven’t caught up on these World Championshils.

The WA results list Crouser’s result as a CR instead of WR; maybe their format did not allow the ‘WR’ indicator?

It’s all about The Age Grade!

Depending on which calculator you use, I see results between 96 and 99 %. Astounding.

Did the announcers mention ever 3 seconds she is a mom like they do with Fenix?

Nice try. Not getting laid.

Ohkaaaaay…says they same guy that always complains about the real ages of East Africans or BYU runners.

Nike goes home devestated

Despite position or place. Despite conditions. Sara races to the end. And it seemingly pays off for her. I have so much respect for her true racing mentality. She never quits. She finishes all her marathons with an honest effort.