What would the times of the median runners look like? Median isn't the right word, but when you look at record times your looking at extreme outliers in a group

What would the times of the median runners look like? Median isn't the right word, but when you look at record times your looking at extreme outliers in a group that are already extreme outliers relative to most of humanity. If we snipped off these statistical outliers does the gap grow or shrink?