2025 World Marathon Majors average finish times released — which course is truly the fastest?



Recently, the average finishing times for the 2025 World Marathon Majors were released. Because the Boston Marathon requires qualifying standards for entry, it's not surprising that it ranks first in average times for both men and women.


However, excluding the Boston Marathon, two well-known domestic races—the Wuxi Marathon, which produced a national record, and the Xiamen Marathon, one of only two domestic platinum-label events—have average finishing times for men and women that are significantly faster than those at other World Marathon Majors.

And in terms of finish-time gaps, the average men’s–women’s finish-time differences at Wuxi and Xiamen are 18 minutes 35 seconds, 19 minutes 01 seconds。Among the seven World Marathon Majors, the smallest gender gap is at the Tokyo Marathon 20 minutes 35 seconds,the Boston Marathon, which enforces qualifying standards, has 22 minutes 33 seconds,while the largest is the Chicago Marathon at 32 minutes 52 seconds

Which of these races have you run? Do the pace impressions from the data match your own on-course experience? Feel free to share your race experiences with us in the comments!


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