Does Advanced Footwear Technology Improve Track and Road Racing Performance? An Explorative Analysis Based on the 100 Best Yearly Performances in the World Between 2010 and 2022

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 1 Criteria table

	First criterion (%)		Second criterion (%*)		Third criterion (best two years)
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
100 m	0.66	0.33	100	100	2022, 2021	2022, 2016
100/110 m hurdles	0.63	0.41	100	67	2022, 2021	2022, 2021
200 m	0.37	0.55	67	100	2022, 2018	2022, 2021
400 m	0.63	0.22	100	100	2021, 2022	2022, 2015
400 m hurdles	0.49	0.38	67	100	2021, 2022	2022, 2016
800 m	0.31	0.46	67	67	2022, 2021	2021, 2022
1500 m	0.66	0.16	100	33	2022, 2021	2021, 2012
3000 m steeplechase	1.33	0.33	100	67	2021, 2022	2021, 2022
5000 m	1.63	0.24	100	33	2021, 2022	2022, 2012
10,000 m	1.84	0.69	100	67	2021, 2022	2022, 2021
Half-marathon	2.05	0.84	100	86	2022, 2019	2022, 2021
Marathon	1.45	0.73	86	71	2022, 2019	2022, 2021

A bold style indicates that a criterion has been met. First criterion: the mean of the medians of the 100 best performances per year during the observation period should be at least 0.5% faster than the reference value (% improvements are provided). Second criterion: at least 75% of the years in the observation period were statistically significantly faster than the reference value (% of years are provided). Third criterion: two years within the observation period were overall the fastest years within the entire analysis period
*Significance at p < 5.95 × 10^–4