STATISTICS
Stacks of Stats!
When it comes the Comrades Marathon, the stats are always impressive – it is, after all, The Ultimate Human Race – so we broke it all down into a few interesting statistical categories.
GENERAL STATS
OCCUPATION
10.6 % Managers
ENTRANTS
21,673 Qualifiers
TOTAL ENTRANTS
SA 18861 Rest Of Africa 1512 International 1300
GENDER
78.2 % Male
GENDER
Male 16960 Female 4717
NAMES
105 David’ s
MOST COMMON FIRST NAMES
First Name
Total David 115 Michael 106 Thabo 83 Bongani 76 Tshepo 70
SURNAMES
132 Ndlovu’ s
MOST COMMON SURNAMES
Last Name
LANGUAGE
57 % English
TOP 5 LANGUAGES
Language
Total Ndlovu 132 Dlamini 112 Khumalo 87 Smith 80 Mkhize 72
Total English 12354 IsiZulu 2124 Afrikaans 1970 Northern SeSotho 1094 IsiXhosa 1075
MOST COMMON OCCUPATIONS
Occupation Male Female Total Other 1871 649 2520 Manager 1876 426 2302 Accountant / Auditor 1133 371 1504
Information Technology
911 120 1031
Unemployed 679 181 860 Financial \ Banking 567 182 749 Policeman 512 85 597 Clerk 351 167 518 Doctor / Specialist 343 142 485 Advocate / Attorney 361 97 458
SHOES
94.3 % for 6 Brands
SHOE BRAND SUMMARY
Shoe Brand Male Female Total Asics 6222 1622 7844 adidas 4556 1083 5639 New Balance 1907 694 2601 Nike 1839 474 2313 Saucony 723 307 1030 Brooks 651 370 1021 Hoka one one 515 164 679 Puma 377 86 463 Other 296 92 388 Maxed 299 35 334 On 73 37 110 Mizuno 72 17 89 Under Armour 51 13 64 Salomon 44 8 52 Reebok 25 3 28 Skechers 11 1 12 361 degrees 5 1 6 Inov-8 3 1 4
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