Average Marathon Runner Age? 42 at Boston with some Variation

by Raymond Britt

It seems like the average age of a marathon runner is getting older. Our analysis of nearly 30,000 entrants in the 2018 Boston Marathon indicates an average age of 42. We ran the numbers on the Top 50 Cities ranked by number of entrants and found some variations. Notably, some Massachusetts cities' runners ages were a few years younger, but at the same time, runners from Tokyo average age 50. Here's the average data for the top 50 cities based on total number of runners.

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Boston Marathon Mix of Gender by Age Group for City of Boston Runners

By Raymond Britt

About 30,000 runners are entered in the 2018 Boston Marathon. In our analysis of the top 25 cities by number of runners, Boston leads with 749. While the gender mix across all 30,000 entrants is 55% men, 45% women, we were surprised to find the in Boston, 59% are women. In fact, the Female 25-29 age group has twice as many entrants as any other age group in Boston.

To see data on runners by age group and 7,579 cities see our Global City Data Table

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Boston Marathon 2018 Runners by 7579 Global Cities by Age Group

By Raymond Britt

About 30,000 runners are awarded entry to the Boston Marathon and this year they come from 7,579 different global cities. Not only did we break out the number of runners by city, we dove deeper to define number of runners by age group in each location. Scroll around, enjoy. (also see all runners and age groups by city geomapped by location around the globe).


 
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