Performance gap between men and women narrows in ultra-endurance events, review finds
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Ollie Odell
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A review examining whether women will ever outperform men in ultra-endurance events finds that the performance gap narrows significantly as event distance increases. While men outperform women by about 10% in marathons, the difference shrinks to roughly 4% in ultra-marathons and becomes negligible in extreme ultra-endurance events. Notably, women tend to outperform men in ultra-distance swimming. The article explores physiological factors that may contribute to women's relative advantage in extreme endurance scenarios.
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· 4 pulledMales tend to outperform females in a number of sports.
This difference is much smaller in ultra-endurance sports, such as in ultra-marathon (with a difference of 4%), or in extreme ultra endurance events where the difference is negligible.
It appears that the longer the event, the smaller the difference.
In ultra-distance swimming females tend to perform better than males!
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