Performance and sex difference in ultra-triathlon performance from Ironman to Double Deca Iron ultra-triathlon between 1978 and 2013 The best Ironman triathlets are increasingly approaching the best men. It has also been described that women can conquer men on very long swimming trails.Even on very long running tracks, women can keep in front of the front. So the question arises as it looks like on the very long triathlon routes.We have the top 3 finishers from 1978 to 2013 via the Ironman route (3.8 km swim, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km walk) to the Double Deca route (76 km swim, 3'600 km cycling and 840 kmRunning) Examined whether the women are able to maintain at the very long triathlon routes on the front with the men.Totally the times of 46'123 triathlets were evaluated. While the difference in performance for swimming, cycling, running and overall time for the Ironman route decreased, the difference increased over the double Ironman route for the total time.The triple Ironman route also came to an increase in cycling, running and total time. If you take the fastest finishers for all routes, the difference was 27.0% for swimming, 24.3% for cycling, 24.5% for running and 24.0% for the total time.
The bottom line can be concluded that the women probably approached men on the Ironman route, but no chance to catch up on the longer distances but no chance. All numbers can be found at www.springerplus.com/content/3/1/219/abstract