Age and gender difference in non-drafting ultra-endurance cycling performance - the ‘Swiss Cycling Marathon’ We have analyzed the performance of all finishers at ‘Swiss Cycling Marathon’ from 2001 to 2012 at the 720km route as qualifier for the RAAM. If one compares the times of the fastest men and women, the difference was 13.6% for the fastest finishers, 13.9% for the three fastest men and women and 19.1% for the ten fastest men and women. The difference between the fastest three men and women decreased from 30.5% in 2001 to 20.4% in 2012.The fastest women were over the years faster while the fastest men could not improve their performance.
The 10 fastest men were on average about 36 years old, the 10 fastest women, however, about 39 years. The whole evaluation can be found under https://extremephysiolmed.biomedCentral.com/Articles/10.1186/2046-7648-2-18