Table 1.

Comparison of 1896 Olympic winning times in running events and current Masters records that surpass those winning times (from ESPN and World Masters Records)

Running events	1896 Olympic winning time (from the first Olympic games in Athens)	Current age-group records that surpass 1896 Olympic times and age at which these records were achieved
100 m (s)	12.0	11.7 (61 years)
200 m (s)	22.2	22.1 (46 years)
400 m (s)	54.2	53.9 (63 years)
800 m (min:s)	2:11.0	2:10.4 (60 years)
1500 m (min:s)	4:33:2	4:27:7 (60 years)
Marathon (h:min:s)	2:58:50	2:54:5 (73 years)