Statisticians have created a model to work out the answers to one of the biggest questions asked by sports fans around the world – what were the best track athletics performances of all time?
After analysing the times of performances across all Olympic track distances between 1908 and the Rio Olympics for male athletes and from 1928 to Rio for female athletes, statisticians at Lancaster University (UK) and CSIRO Data Analytics (Australia) found that the world-record shattering run by Ethiopian long-distance runner Almaz Ayana in the women’s 10,000 metres at Rio ranks as the fifth best run ever by a woman track athlete.
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