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Marathon world record progression

Order by the year each record was set. Place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

Marathon world record progression
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How Marathon world record progression is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 32 cards you could be dealt, plus 4 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Johnny Hayes — 2:55:18 Olympic marathon, London
  • Hannes Kolehmainen — 2:32:35 Olympic marathon, Antwerp
  • Albert Michelsen — 2:29:02 Port Chester, New York
  • Sohn Kee-chung — 2:26:42 Tokyo
  • Suh Yun-bok — 2:25:39 Boston
  • Jim Peters — 2:20:42 Chiswick, London
  • Jim Peters — 2:18:40 Chiswick, London
  • Sergei Popov — 2:15:17 Stockholm
  • Abebe Bikila — 2:15:16 Olympic marathon, Rome
  • Buddy Edelen — 2:14:28 Chiswick, London
  • Basil Heatley — 2:13:55 Chiswick, London
  • Abebe Bikila — 2:12:11 Olympic marathon, Tokyo
  • Morio Shigematsu — 2:12:00 Chiswick, London
  • Derek Clayton — 2:09:36 Fukuoka
  • Rob de Castella — 2:08:18 Fukuoka
  • Steve Jones — 2:08:05 Chicago
  • Carlos Lopes — 2:07:12 Rotterdam
  • Belayneh Dinsamo — 2:06:50 Rotterdam
  • Ronaldo da Costa — 2:06:05 Berlin
  • Khalid Khannouchi — 2:05:42 Chicago
  • Khalid Khannouchi — 2:05:38 London
  • Haile Gebrselassie — 2:04:26 Berlin
  • Haile Gebrselassie — 2:03:59 Berlin
  • Patrick Makau — 2:03:38 Berlin
  • Wilson Kipsang — 2:03:23 Berlin
  • Dennis Kimetto — 2:02:57 Berlin
  • Eliud Kipchoge — 2:01:39 Berlin
  • Eliud Kipchoge — 2:01:09 Berlin

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