Gloryhole Attendant wrote:
The ratio for Japanese wo/men #1 mark vs #50 mark in the 100 is 3% for both ie the 50th mark is 3% slower than the 50th. 11.37/11.86 vs 9.97/10.34
For the marathon it is 3% for men, 11% for women 2:05:51/2:10 vs 2:19:24/2:35The 100 times for women are uniformly slow. But it is even slower in Kenya. The fastest 100 in 2023 was 11.68, and only 36 marks were recorded.
Kenya seems to live rent free in the heads of many users of this site. The Kenyans have absolutely nothing to do with the slow Japanese women yet you somehow felt compelled to mention them, a country that has very little historical sprinting tradition