A list of the winners can be found here
I was reading this article and it mentioned that Chengdu may become the next World Major. There's also talk about having one of the majors be in Africa or Singapore. I have a long-term goal of completing all the majors, but if they keep adding more, I feel I will never finish! (lol). I also think if you start adding too many, it will dilute the exclusivity of the majors.
I personally think Chengdu would be a strange choice as the marathon has only been held there since 2017. It has no history although the city looks quite pretty. Paris would be a great addition but then again it does not provide geographical diversity. What are your thoughts?
you play out the game as per normal, but when major events occur the dark ages, black plague, ww1, ww2, etc. The game slows down during those periods and they are played out historically, or with the ability to create a distopian world afterwards. I.e German winning ww2.
The game could also be specific to your civ. If playing England battle of Hastings etc.
Thoughts?
Hi all, we looked at the podium finishers (men and women) of the 6 world majors for this year and checked what shoes they were wearing.
A few stats:
- Of the total 36 podium finishers, 25 were wearing Nike shoes
- Of the 12 winners, 8 were wearing Nike shoes
- Adidas comes second with 6 podium finishers and 2 winners
- Other brands are Brooks (2 podiums), Asics, Saucony and New Balance (1 podium each)
If you want to see all the details, here is the infographic:
Today is the birthday of a 4-time World Marathon Majors Runner-up, Abderrahim Goumri.
His started his career off great. He reached the 5000m track finals at the 2003 World Championships placing 10th in a time of 13:23.67. He also raced in the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 World Cross Country Championships.
His first Olympic Games appears would come at the 2004 Summer Olympics where his placed 13th overall with a time of 13:47.27. In 2005 he ran a career best of 12:50.25 minutes for the distance to take eleventh place on the all-time lists.
From 2007 onwards he focused on marathon running and was runner-up at both the London and New York races that year. He had an unfortunate DNF at the 2007 World Championships in the Marathon. He set a Moroccan record of 2:05:30 hours for third at the 2008 London Marathon, becoming the sixth fastest marathoner at that point.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic he finished 20th overall in a time of 2:15:00. He was the runner-up at the 2008 New York Marathon and the 2009 Chicago Marathon in a time of 2:06:04.
At the age of 36; Abderrahim Goumri died on January 19th, 2013 in a car crash in Temara, Morocco, while en route to Rabat.
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> Abbott World Marathon Majors (AbbottWMM), the collective of the world’s six greatest marathons, and partners Abbott and Wanda Group announced today the creation of its first global age group marathon ranking system and age group world championships.
This sounds like an interesting idea.
Anyone know when they will drop or the details if NYC & CHI will only be available on-site? I’m dying for them!
Hi all, we looked at the podium finishers (men and women) of the 6 world majors for this year and checked what shoes they were wearing.
A few stats:
- Of the total 36 podium finishers, 25 were wearing Nike shoes
- Of the 12 winners, 8 were wearing Nike shoes
- Adidas comes second with 6 podium finishers and 2 winners
- Other brands are Brooks (2 podiums), Asics, Saucony and New Balance (1 podium each)
If you want to see all the details, here is the infographic:
