Her finish time is roughly the average finish time of the Top 25 Marathons.- Oprah's Finish Time: 4:29
- New York City Average Time: 4:24
- Chicago Marathon Average Time: 4:41
- Marine Corps Marathon Average Time: 4:44
- Top 25 Marathon Finish Times
How Fast Did Oprah Run a Marathon?
Do you want to beat Oprah's marathon time? In 1994, at the Marine Corps Marathon, Oprah Winfrey ran a 4:29:20 in her first and only marathon.
Her finish time is roughly the average finish time of the Top 25 Marathons.
Her finish time is roughly the average finish time of the Top 25 Marathons.
New York City Marathon: Complete Results Analysis
By Raymond Britt
On an extraordinary day for racing, a record 50,000 runners inspired up to one million spectators lining the course on their 26.2 mile journey to finish one of the best events in the world: The New York City Marathon.
We're proud to have finished this great marathon in the past; this year, and we've been there to witness and photograph the event. And we've crunched the numbers to provide our annual detailed results analysis.
We've also done substantial additional and complementary analysis, which featured below, with customized excerpts appearing in Competitor Magazine and Runner's World Magazine.
For overall perspective, let's start with results since 2000 --14 years of NYC Marathon average finish times -- compared to results at three other Top US marathons.
Boston, with a field made up of at least 70% who qualified to enter! clearly has the fastest field. After trailing Chicago trough 2006, NYC Marathon has been a steady second-fastest since then. Chicago's struggled alternatively with adverse weather and an increasing mix of typically slower charity runners.
We've also done substantial additional and complementary analysis, which featured below, with customized excerpts appearing in Competitor Magazine and Runner's World Magazine.
For even more, see our Complete New York City Marathon Coverage, Fastest Country, City and Age Group Analysis, and for those who seek even more data, see our archive of 200+ posts, with dozens of other marathon results, Stats/Results/Analysis.
Top 10 Pro Men
Top 10 Pro Women
Top 10 USA Men
Top 10 USA Women
Top 10 Wheelchair Men
Top 10 Wheelchair Women
For more, see our Complete New York City Marathon Coverage, including historical analysis since 2000, and visit our Stats/Results/Analysis comprehensive archive of more than 2000 race results analyses, to compare NYC Marathon results with other major marathons.
Chicago Marathon 2015 Results Analysis
By Raymond Britt (originally published by Running Competitor Magazine)
The 2015 Chicago Marathon continued to live up to its reputation as one of the most popular races in the world along several dimensions: a flat and fast course, more than a million cheering spectators, thousands of top-notch volunteers, as the entire city seemed to embrace the event again this year.
Fast facts:
1. What was the average finish time overall? What were average times by age group?
2. How many of the 37,182 finishers were in each age group?3392)
3. How did the average finish times this year compare to finish times in 2014? By Age group?
4. How much slower is the second 13.1 miles compared to the first 13.1 miles, overall?
5. How do the first 13.1 miles and the second 13.1 mile times differ by age group?
6. Let's take a 5-year View: how do the 1st and second half split times compare from 2011 to 2015?
7. How Many Chicago Marathon runners finished, by year, from 2011 and 2015?
8. What were the winning times in each of the last 5 years?
9. When analyzing top 5 Male finishers between 2011 and 2015, will we see the same pattern?
10. What accounts for the 5 minute difference in winning time compared to 2014? Decidedly slower times at all but one checkpoint. Race organizers decided against using pacers, which had been used in previous years to speed up the field in hopes of achieving a new world record.
12 and 13. Wrapping it up with a comparison of finishers by age group, 2014 compared to 2015
For more in-depth historical Chicago Marathon analysis, see the author's complete archive at www.RaceChicago.org.
The 2015 Chicago Marathon continued to live up to its reputation as one of the most popular races in the world along several dimensions: a flat and fast course, more than a million cheering spectators, thousands of top-notch volunteers, as the entire city seemed to embrace the event again this year.
Fast facts:
- Finishers: 37,182 finishers (out of 45,000 entrants, selected from 70,000 lottery applications) finished the race, nearly 3000 fewer than in 2014; 20,144 Men, 17,038 Women.
- Winners: Dickson Chumba from Kenya won with an exceedingly slow 2:09:25, a 4 to 5 minute increase vs the 2:04s and 2:05s we've seen in recent years. Likely reason: no pacers this year. Florence Kipligat from Kenya won the women's race in 2:23:33.
- Average Finish Time: 4 hours 33 minutes and 15 seconds, a mere 10 seconds slower than in 2014.
1. What was the average finish time overall? What were average times by age group?
2. How many of the 37,182 finishers were in each age group?3392)
3. How did the average finish times this year compare to finish times in 2014? By Age group?
4. How much slower is the second 13.1 miles compared to the first 13.1 miles, overall?
5. How do the first 13.1 miles and the second 13.1 mile times differ by age group?
6. Let's take a 5-year View: how do the 1st and second half split times compare from 2011 to 2015?
7. How Many Chicago Marathon runners finished, by year, from 2011 and 2015?
8. What were the winning times in each of the last 5 years?
9. When analyzing top 5 Male finishers between 2011 and 2015, will we see the same pattern?
10. What accounts for the 5 minute difference in winning time compared to 2014? Decidedly slower times at all but one checkpoint. Race organizers decided against using pacers, which had been used in previous years to speed up the field in hopes of achieving a new world record.
12 and 13. Wrapping it up with a comparison of finishers by age group, 2014 compared to 2015
For more in-depth historical Chicago Marathon analysis, see the author's complete archive at www.RaceChicago.org.
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