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A while ago we looked at the steadily increasing proportion of female finishers in the Melbourne Marathon from 1978 to 2012. The trend continued in 2013, as shown below:

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This isn’t the clearest graph ever, but it might help to know that point 1 represents 1978 when there were 1947 finishers, 4.1% of whom were female, and point 36 represents 2013 when there were 6848 finishers, 29.4% of whom were female.