The role of weather conditions on running performance in the Boston Marathon from 1972 to 2018.

This study examined the relationship of weather conditions, together with sex and country of origin, with running performance in the Boston Marathon from 1972 to 2018. A total of 580,990 observations from 382,209 different finishers were analyzed using Generalized Additive Mixed Models. Different gr...

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Main Authors: Beat Knechtle, Stefania Di Gangi, Christoph Alexander Rüst, Elias Villiger, Thomas Rosemann, Pantelis Theo Nikolaidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212797