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Physicists find a way to set a new marathon record

The right configuration of pacers could lead to the fastest marathon ever run.
Three runners wearing black, in a line in front of one runner wearing bright orange

Eliud Kipchoge drafts off other runners in a 2017 attempt to run a marathon in less than two hours. Credit: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty

Results from wind-tunnel experiments could help athletes run the fastest marathon ever1.

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Nature 620, 701 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02573-x

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  1. Marro, M., Leckert, J., Rollier, E., Sallizoni, P. & Bailly, C. Proc. R. Soc. A 479, 20220836 (2023).

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