Women Outperform Men in Ultra-Distance Swimming - The ‘Manhattan Island Marathon Swim’ From 1983 to 2013 So far, we have previously examined several sports and events on the difference in performance between men and women and always the men were faster than the women. Except for long-distance swimming, where women can compete partly with the men.Now we have found a competition in which the women could effectively distance the men. In the, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim ‘, a 46 km long swimming competition around Manhattan at water temperatures of significantly below 20 degrees, the best women are around 12-14% faster than the best men.
Surprisingly, from 1983-2013, the age of the top swimmers rose to around 38 years at women and around 42 years in men. The evaluation can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24584647/