Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running? So far, a lot has already been reported that women in individual cases can beat all men in very long runs.Whether this is really possible in a larger style you can only check different routes and a long period of time on the basis of a large-scale study. We therefore have analyzed all runners who have completed one or more competitions between 1975 and 2013 in runs over 6 hours, 12 hours, 24-hour, 48 hours, 72 hours, 6 days and 10 days. The most important findings are that the difference between the sexes with increasing age increased.Over the years, women were able to move up to men over 6 hours, 72 hours and 6 days to men, but not over 24 hours and 48 hours.
The relationship of men-to-women was higher, especially in the older age groups, accordingly, the participation of women in higher age groups was lower. The work can be read below https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40064-016-2326-y