Analysis of sex differences in open-water ultra-distance swimming performances in the FINA World Cup races in 5 km, 10 km and 25 km from 2000 to 2012 Current work on long-distance swimming show that the women increasingly approach the men the longer the floating route is.We assume that this is made possible by, windshades swimming. In the case of eLite Schwimmeren to World Cup races, the women would have to significantly reduce the difference to the men of 5 km to 25 km.We have now examined the performance of the floats at the World Cup of the Fina from 2000 to 2012.The fastest swimmers could not improve their performance over the years. If you take the 10ast per year, over 5 km the men were slower, over 10 km and 25 km the women faster.If you determine the difference between the fastest, so for all routes was no change in the difference over the years.At the 10ast per year, the difference over 5 km remained unchanged at around 7.6%, decreased over 10 km to 1.2% and rose above 25 km to 9.6%.
It seems that the linear decrease of the performance difference over 10 km points out that the women could catch up on this route, but not more than 25 km where the linear course of the difference suggests that the women over this route will never catch up by the men. All details can be found under https://bmcsportscimedrehabil.biomedCentral.com/articles/10.1186/2052-1847-6-7