Sex Differences in World Record Performance: The Influence of Sport Discipline and Competition Duration It is well known that women are 8-12% slower than men when it comes to sporty achievements at the highest level. Exceptions are sports where increasingly the upper body is needed, there is the difference about about 15%.
In long-distance swimming, women reduced the difference to about 5%. All facts and figures can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28488921/