Price does not equate to accuracy in watches for runners: study

Which of the GPS devices used by marathon, half-marathon, long-distance or 10k runners is more accurate? Are sports or mobile phone watches better? Is there a difference between men and women when choosing one device or another? A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has analyzed 85 different models and over 70,000 pieces of data from the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Valencia marathons from 2016 to 2019, registered on the Strava platform. Among the many conclusions, the study shows that price does not equate to accuracy in watches, and that men and women have different priorities when choosing them. The study has been published in IEEE Consumer Electronics.