Women reduced the sex difference in open-water ultra-distance swimming - La Traversee Internationale du Lac St-Jean, 1955-2012

作者：Ruest Christoph A; Knechtle Beat^*; Rosemann Thomas; Lepers Romuald

来源：Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, 2014, 39(2): 270-273.

DOI：10.1139/apnm-2013-0222

• water sport
• women
• men
• performance
• athlete

In La Traversee Internationale du Lac St-Jean, held between 1955 and 2012 in Canada, the fastest women (r(2) = 0.61, p %26lt; 0.0001) and men (r(2) = 0.66, p %26lt; 0.0001) improved swimming speed over the years but the sex difference remained unchanged at 8.8% +/- 5.6% (r(2) = 0.069, p = 0.065). Annually, for the 3 fastest swimmers, both women (r(2) = 0.53, p %26lt; 0.0001) and men (r(2) = 0.71, p %26lt; 0.0001) improved swimming speed between 1973 and 2012 and the sex difference decreased (r(2) = 0.29, p = 0.0016) from 14.4% +/- 11.0% (1973) to 3.7% +/- 1.4% (2012).

• 出版日期2014-2