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Continuing a tradition, we have graphed the finishers of all Melbourne Marathons, 1978 to 2015.

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This isn’t the clearest graph ever, but it might help to know that point 78 represents 1978 when there were 1947 finishers, 4.1% of whom were female, and point 14 represents 2014 when there were 6440 finishers, 30.7% of whom were female.

Recent years have seen a gradual increase in the percentage of female finishers, but the 2015 percentage (30.48) was a little lower than that of 2014 (30.75). Perhaps more disappointing is that the total number of finishers decreased for the second year.