Comparison men and women in the English Channel

Best performances by men and women open-water swimmers during the ‘English Channel Swim’ from 1900 to 2010. The crossing of the English Channel is for extreme swimmers of Mount Everest the mountaineer. Between 1900 and 2010, Totally 1,533 swimmers have passed through the canal.The biggest part of the swimmers came from England.The swimmers were over the years in faster, the men were faster than the women.

However, if you look at the fastest times each year, there was no difference between the sexes. All results can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22830602/

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The transseuropal on 2009

The Transeurope Footrace Project: Longitudinal data acquisition in a cluster randomized mobile MRI observational cohort study on 44 endurance runners at a 64-stage 4,486km transcontinental ultramarathon. In 2009, the trans-European race was conducted by Bari to the North Cape. A research group accompanied the runners with a mobile MRI together with many other investigations. The variety of the resulting studies will give new insights into the resilience of man, the first compilation can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22812450/

Calculation of the Ironman competition time for women

Personal best times in an Olympic distance triathlon and a marathon predict an ironman race time for recreational female triathletes In the long-distance area there are many variables that have an impact on performance. For example, it is known that a deep body fat correlates with a fast competition time. For Ironman triathlets, it is a bit more difficult, because variables of the body construction show no connection with the competition time.

Hyponatremia in ultratriathletes

Higher prevalence of exercise-associated hyponatremia in triple iron ultra-triathletes than reported for ironman triathletes. The stress-associated hyponatremia is a frequent electrolyte track in endurance athletes. As a rule, the percentage is below 10% of the persons studied.However, a study at 100-mile runners showed a significantly increased percentage and we studied the prevalence of stress-associated hyponatremia at Triple Iron Ultra Triathlets at Triple Iron Germany in Lensahn. Of 31 finishers, 8 athletes (26%) developed a hyponatremia, the details below https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22784278/

Von Double Iron zu Double Deca Iron Ultra Triathlon

From Double Iron to Double Deca Iron Ultra-Triathlon – A Retrospective Data Analysis from 1985 to 2011 In 1985, the first triathlon was held over the double Ironman distance.Since then, the routes have been consecutively longer to twenty times Ironman distance.We have examined the development of the scene more accurately.

As important insights we found that less than 8% of the starters a competition longer than the triple Ironman route took in attack and the Europeans won the most competitions on all routes. All details about thehistory of theultratriathlonin https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273723613_From_Double_Iron_to_Double_Deca_Iron_Ultra-Triathlon_-_A_Retrospective_Data_Analysis_from_1985_to_2011

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What influences the marathon time?

Running speed during training and percent body fat predict race time in recreational male marathoners Marathon runners are always wondering if about long legs or much muscles are crucial for a fast marathon period.We have studied with 126 male marathon runners, whether the sizes of extremities, skin fold thickness, weight, size, BMI, muscle mass, or training influence the marathon time.If you consider all the variables, only the body fat and the running speed remain in training at the end. So if you have little body fat and running fast in training, a fast marathon time will be achieved accordingly. These two variables correlate with each other, whoever runs quickly will reduce body fat, but also a deep body fat can promote a fast running speed.

Europeans dominate Triple Iron Ultra-Triathlon

European dominance in Triple Iron ultra-triathlons from 1988 to 2011 Since 1988, ultratriathlons have been held over the triple Ironman distance of 11.4 km swimming, 540 km cycling and 126.6 km. So far, 1,258 athletes participated in such a competition, with 85.6% of the starters from Europe. Although Americans invented the triathlon, Europeans dominate the long triathlon routes.

Europeans have the faster times as opposed to the Americans and have improved their performance over the years. The work is published in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281758157_European_dominance_in_Triple_Iron_ultra-triathlons_from_1988_to_2011

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Swim women faster than men in the extreme pond?

SEX DIFFERENCE IN OPEN-WATER ULTRA-SWIM PERFORMANCE IN THE LONGEST FRESHWATER LAKE SWIM IN EUROPE Certain studies are of the opinion that they are approaching women more and more of men’s performance, especially for stress forms such as swimming where specific aspects such as body fat can influence performance. We have analyzed the competition readings of the ‘Zürichsee swim’ from Rapperswil to Zurich over 26.4 km from 1987 to 2011.Generally, both the finishers like the winners were getting older during swimming times were not faster. For the winners, the men with 403 ± 43 min were more and more faster than women at 452 ± 63 min during the time of all finishers between men (530 ± 39 min) and women (567 ± 71 min) was not different.The performance difference of ~11.5% between men and women remained unchanged over the 25 years of competition.

Comparison marathon runners against 100 km runners

Similarities and differences in anthropometry and training between recreational male 100-km ultra-marathoners and marathoners. For 100 km runners, the marathon best time is a highly significant variable for the 100 km time.We now asked ourselves the question of whether marathon runners regarding physique and training are similar to 100 km runners.It turned out that marathon runners had little differences in skin fold thicknesses. For both groups of runners, a deep body fat was important for a quick runtime. The marathon runners invested significantly less time training and ran faster in training as the 100 km runners. The details of the study are under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22724447/