Crowding at the Front of the Marathon Packs

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dc.creatorSabhapandit, Sanjib
dc.creatorMajumdar, Satya N.
dc.creatorRedner, S.
dc.date2008-02-12
dc.date2008-04-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:33:37Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:33:37Z
dc.descriptionWe study the crowding of near-extreme events in the time gaps between successive finishers in major international marathons. Naively, one might expect these gaps to become progressively larger for better-placing finishers. While such an increase does indeed occur from the middle of the finishing pack down to approximately 20th place, the gaps saturate for the first 10-20 finishers. We give a probabilistic account of this feature. However, the data suggests that the gaps have a weak maximum around the 10th place, a feature that seems to have a sociological origin.
dc.description5 pages, 2 figures; version 2: published manuscript with various changes in response to referee comments and some additional improvements
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1702
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1702
dc.identifierJ. Stat. Mech. (2008) L03001
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1742-5468/2008/03/L03001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/159198
dc.subjectData Analysis, Statistics and Probability
dc.subjectPopular Physics
dc.titleCrowding at the Front of the Marathon Packs
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