The Abbott World Marathon Majors are a series of seven races, including the Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, New York City Marathon and – as of 2025 – Sydney Marathons. The Six Star Finishers are people who have finished the original six races (not including Sydney). The host, Abbott, maintains a Hall of Fame with … Read more
The London Marathon was about two weeks ago. It’s the last of the Majors for the spring – following the Tokyo and Boston Marathons. Those two races each saw a significant number of new Six Star Finishers. How many new finishers are there after London? As I did after Boston, I collected the raw data … Read more
Feature photo courtesy of erp3d on reddit Recently, I did two in depth analyses of data related to the six star finishers. I published the last one last week – in the lead up to Boston – and I thought it would be interesting to do a quick follow up to see what changed with … Read more
Feature image by Julian Mason on Flickr. CC BY 2.0. A few weeks ago, I published an analysis of data that I collected from the Abbott World Marathon Majors Six Star Finisher Hall of Fame. It provided some insight into who the Six Star Finishers were – and the path they took to collect all … Read more