Sex and age-related differences in performance in a 24-hour ultra-cycling draft-legal event - a cross-sectional data analysis The difference in the performance of long-distance cycling was already examined for races in which windshade driving is prohibited as the ‘Race Across America’ or the ‘Swiss Cycling Marathon’. On a 24-hour race in Schötz on a completely flat course, windshading was not forbidden and the women had the opportunity to drive behind the men in the windshade.We have evaluated the results from 2000 to 2011. If all men and women were compared, the men did not improve the performance, but the women did not.The men achieved significantly more kilometers in the 24 hours as the women.The difference between the sexes was 19.7 ± 7.8% and did not change over the years.The age of the fastest drivers remained unchanged at the men at 35 ± 6 years, but the women fell from 38 ± 10 to 35 ± 6 years over time.
Amazing is this study that the difference between the sexes remained at 20%, although women had the opportunity to drive men in the windshade of men. All numbers can be found under https://bmcsportscimedrehabil.biomedCentral.com/articles/10.1186/2052-1847-6-19