Analysis of swimming performance in FINA World Cup long-distance open water races For endurance athletes in the elite area, trends of participation and performance were prefetched for runners and triathlets, but not for swimmers.
We have now examined the top swimmers of the Fina World Cup for 5km, 10km and 25km in open water swimming. From this relatively young discipline exist for a few years now.It showed in the period from 2000 to 2012 that the swimming speed of women over 5km and 25km decreased while the speed over 10km increased. In the men, the speed decreased over 5km, but remained unchanged over 10km and 25km.Women were disciples at the time of their best swimming power than men (at 25-27 years). More details can be found under https://extremephysiolmed.biomedCentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/2046-7648-3-2.pdf