Do running shoes influence the world record performance in male and female endurance athletes?

Do running shoes influence the world record performance in male and female endurance athletes?

Methods:

Analysis of the top 100 performances per year (men and women) from 2010 to 2022 (according to World Athletics).

Results:

5000m:

+2.2% (Women)

+3.5% (Men)

Marathon:

+0.7% (Women)

+1.4% (Men)

The authors suggest that these improvements may be attributable to the running shoes.

However: Although the data suggest a correlation between shoes and improvement in results, this enhancement could also have occurred due to various other factors!

Full Text:  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38332220/