Place Name Time
1. Usain Bolt 2:14:45
2. Wayde van Niekert 2:31:18
3. David Rudisha 2:57:25
4. Noah Ngeny 3:05:36
5. Hicham El Guerrouj 3:13:10
6. Daniel Komen 3:26:36
7. Kenenisa Bekele 3:33:03
What is the competition?
This puzzle is part of Recycling old answers.
I think the competition is the
Double Marathon (84.39km race)
Reasoning
If you take each athlete's record in their signature event and take the average speed over the distance of a double marathon, you would get the times listed (when rounded to the nearest second).
Example
Usain Bolt's record for the $100$m race is $9.58$ seconds for an average speed of $10.438$m/s. Doing this average speed for a distance of $84.39$km would give an overall time of roughly $2$ hours $14$ minutes and $45$ seconds.
Other athletes
Wayde van Niekert - 400m in 43.03 seconds.
David Rudisha - 800m in 1:40.91.
Noah Ngeny - 1000m in 2:11.96
Hicham El Guerrouj - 1500m in 3:26.00
Daniel Komen - 3000m in 7:20.67
Kenenisa Bekele - 5000m in 12:37.35
