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Are middle lanes fastest in track and field? Data from 8,000 racers shows not so much

  • Written by David R. Munro, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury
Are middle lanes fastest in track and field? Data from 8,000 racers shows not so muchThe fastest runners are usually rewarded with the middle lanes. Michael H/Stone vie Getty Images

As a short-distance track and field runner in high school and college, I often found myself wondering which of the eight or sometimes nine lanes on the track was the fastest. It was conventional wisdom that the middle lanes – lanes three through...

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