Sex difference in race performance and age of peak performance in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship from 1983 to 2012 Between 1983 and 2012, the top ten finishers at the ‘Ironman Hawaii’ improved their times, with only the men in swimming were better. For the total time, the difference between men and women of 15.2% (1983) decreased to 11.3% (2012).In swimming and cycling, the difference remained unchanged at 12.5% over every year.When running, the difference of 13.5% (1983) took 7.3% (2012). If you take the most fastest per discipline, then the time in the floats remained unchanged while the times in cycling and running became faster.The difference between men and women was 8% in swimming, 12.7% in cycling and 15.2% in progress.
Amazing was that the age of the top ten overalls finisher as well as the top ten swimmer, cyclists and runners over the years. The whole work can be found under https://extremephysiolmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2046-7648-1-15