The relationship of wearing a wetsuit in long-distance open-water swimming with sex, age, calendar year, performance, and nationality – crossing the “Strait of Gibraltar” At large swimming in open waters such as channel queries or similar occasions, wearing a neoprene is prohibited. But there is the crossing of the street of Gibraltar where there are 2 categories, once with and once without neoprene. We have now examined the trend over the years.Since 1950, the street of Gibraltar has crossed until now, including a number of swimmers in neoprene. It showed that more men, more older swimmers and more local athletes from Spain with a neoprene swam as women, younger swimmers and athletes of other nationalities. The number of swimmers in the category neoprene increased significantly in the last 30 years.
Swimmer in neoprene were faster than swimmers without neoprene. The whole evaluation can be found under https://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=36891