4.8 Letter

Record-Breaking Performance in a 70-Year-Old Marathoner

Journal

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 380, Issue 15, Pages 1485-1486

Publisher

MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1900771

Keywords

-

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health [P20 GM113125]
  2. American Heart Association [AHA 18POST34060020]

Ask authors/readers for more resources

This letter presents data suggesting that a master athlete's ability to maintain a remarkably high percentage of maximum oxygen uptake played a role in enabling him to run a marathon in 2:54:23.

Authors

I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.

Reviews

Primary Rating

4.8
Not enough ratings

Secondary Ratings

Novelty
-
Significance
-
Scientific rigor
-
Rate this paper

Recommended

No Data Available
No Data Available