@article{Harm_Knechtle_Rüst_Rosemann_Lepers_Onywera_2013, title={Performance of Kenyan athletes in mountain versus flat marathon running: An example in Switzerland}, volume={8}, url={https://www.jhse.ua.es/article/view/2013-v8-n4-performance-of-kenyan-athletes-in-mountain-versus-fla}, DOI={10.4100/jhse.2013.84.01}, abstractNote={<p>The purpose of this study was to compare running performance of Kenyans in a flat city marathon and a mountain marathon in Switzerland. Running times of top three overall Kenyan runners were compared with running times of top three overall runners of other nations in a mountain and a flat marathon held in Switzerland between 2003 and 2011. In the mountain marathon top three male Kenyans achieved with 199±23min the 11<sup>th</sup> fastest running time behind athletes from Italy (177±1min), Switzerland (179±0min), France (186±5min), Great Britain (189±3min), Mexico (189±3min), Germany (192±5min), Czech Republic (195±13min), Morocco (195±7min), USA (196±6min) and Hungary (198±8min). Female Kenyan athletes did not even participate in the mountain marathon. In the city marathon top three male Kenyan athletes achieved the second fastest running time (130±1min) behind Swiss athletes (129±1min), Kenyan female runners had the fifth fastest running time (158±4min) behind athletes from Russia (153±2min), Ethiopia (154±2min), Switzerland (155±2min) and Poland (155±4min). To summarize, Switzerland, Kenyans achieved not the fastest running times in a mountain marathon while they attained the second fastest running times in flat marathon.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Human Sport and Exercise}, author={Harm, Clemens and Knechtle, Beat and Rüst, Christoph Alexander and Rosemann, Thomas and Lepers, Romuald and Onywera, Vincent}, year={2013}, month={Dec.}, pages={881–893} }