Running time during Mostar half-marathon in men and women aged 19 to 75 years old

Purpose: The main purpose of the study was to establish gender- and age-specific normative data for half-marathon running time among the Mostar half-marathon finishers in 2024.Methods: For this observational study, we used the data from the recreational 285 half-marathon finishers (195 men and 90 women, 31.6% women) categorized into five years groups: 19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 and 60-69 yrs. Running time was presented in minutes (min). Main effects for gender, age and the interaction term for gender x age were calculated by univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni post hoc corrections. Results: The average running time was somewhat under 2 hours (1h58’40’’). Gender-related differences showed that men outperformed women in running time by approximately 21 minutes (ηp2 = .11, P< .05). There were no significant age-related differences for aging categories (ηp2 = .02, P= .203). Gender × age interactions did not show significant main effects for running time (ηp2 = .03, P= .091).Conclusions: This study shows that gender differences in running time are more pronounced and in favor to men, opposed to age