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Running Shoes at Tata Mumbai Marathon 2023

What shoes top runners wearing at Tata Mumbai Marathon 2023?
February 24, 2023 Running Shoes at Tata Mumbai Marathon 2023

During the 2019-20 running season, we crawled the Strava to gather shoe data from runners who ran the Delhi half-marathon and Tata Mumbai marathon. At that time, we published a list of the top running shoes.

Over the last three years, how has the running shoe landscape changed in India? Unfortunately, Strava made it extremely difficult to extract data. Could there be an alternative? What better way than to find it out than from the participants of India’s largest marathon. We have scoured through the pictures of top placed runners from Tata Mumbai Marathon to get a sense of how the running shoe landscape has changed.

What shoes are the Top 10 finishers wearing?

Here is the list of top 10 marathon finishers in Men and Women category.

Top 10 Men

9686

NANJUNDAPPA M

VaporFly Next %2

5842

NIHAL BAIG

Hyperion Elite 3

10755

MANOJ KUMAR YADAV

Hyperion Elite 3

12770

ANANT GAONKAR

We couldn’t identify

5996

RAJU CHOUDHARY

VaporFly Next %2

4036

VIPUL KUMAR

Hyperion Elite 2

10422

SANTHOSH KUMAR ARUMUGAM

Metaspeed Sky

10541

ANIL JINDAL

VaporFly Next %2

188984

DHARMENDER KUMAR

Adios Pro 2

4146

TLANDING WAHLANG

VaporFly Next %

Top 10 Women

10454

 SARSWATI RAI

VaporFly Next %2

8763

 MANISHA JOSHI

AlphaFly Next %2

5023

 DARISHISHA IANGJUH

Hyperion Tempo

12972

 DISKET DOLMA

Nike Pegasus

2241

 VASUDHA BAADKAR

VaporFly Next %2

2449

 SIMTA SHARMA

VaporFly Next %2

11774

 NUTAN X

Skechers

11233

 DEEPA NAYAK

Metaspeed Sky

20017

 BIJOYA BARMAN

AlphaFly Next%

9840

 VEDANSHI JOSHI

Metaspeed Sky

Note

Please note that identifying the shoes is tricky as we depend on the photos. Goal here is to look at the data to find the trend, not to find the exact shoe model. If you see any error, please do let us know at [email protected] or on any of our social handles.

  • The most popular brand among the Top 10 runners is Nike, followed by Brooks and Asics.
  • The three leading shoe models: Nike VaporFly Next %, Brooks Hyperion Elite, and Asics Metaspeed Sky.

Popularity Trend

Top 10 finishers however doesn’t indicate the popularity trend, so we have identified the shoes of Top 100 runners to see the trend of popularity.

Note

We couldn’t identify a few shoes, but we have the full list of identified shoes here for reference. Please let us know of errors if any.

Here is how the popularity trends look like

  • Nike is the most popular shoe brand (48 runners) with roughly half the top 100 runners using it.
  • Brooks, Saucony, Adidas, Asics and Puma take the rest of the positions.
  • Interestingly there are couple of barefoot runners in the top 100.
  • Nike VaporFly Next% and Next% 2 are the favorites for the top 100. 31 of the top 100 are using these two shoes.
  • Nike AlphaFly Next % and Next% 2 comes next with 12 runners using it among the top 100.
  • Brooks Hyperion Elite, Saucony Endorphin Pro, Adidas Adios Pro, Asics MetaSpeed, are the remaining shoes in that order of popularity.

Top Shoe Models by Popularity

Here are the top 5 shoe models. All the editions of a model summed up and mentioned only once for brevity.

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