Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?

The aim of the present study was to examine sex differences across years in performance of runners in ultra-marathons lasting from 6 h to 10 days (i.e. 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 144, and 240 h). Data of 32,187 finishers competing between 1975 and 2013 with 93,109 finishes were analysed using multiple linea...

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Main Authors:	Knechtle, Beat, Valeri, Fabio, Nikolaidis, Pantelis T., Zingg, Matthias A., Rosemann, Thomas, Rüst, Christoph A.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer International Publishing 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899381/

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spelling	pubmed-48993812016-06-27 Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running? Knechtle, Beat Valeri, Fabio Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. Zingg, Matthias A. Rosemann, Thomas Rüst, Christoph A. Research The aim of the present study was to examine sex differences across years in performance of runners in ultra-marathons lasting from 6 h to 10 days (i.e. 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 144, and 240 h). Data of 32,187 finishers competing between 1975 and 2013 with 93,109 finishes were analysed using multiple linear regression analyses. With increasing age, the sex gap for all race durations increased. Across calendar years, the gap between women and men decreased in 6, 72, 144 and 240 h, but increased in 24 and 48 h. The men-to-women ratio differed among age groups, where a higher ratio was observed in the older age groups, and this relationship varied by distance. In all durations of ultra-marathon, the participation of women and men varied by age (p < 0.001), indicating a relatively low participation of women in the older age groups. In summary, between 1975 and 2013, women were able to reduce the gap to men for most of timed ultra-marathons and for those age groups where they had relatively high participation. Springer International Publishing 2016-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4899381/ /pubmed/27350909 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2326-y Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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author	Knechtle, Beat Valeri, Fabio Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. Zingg, Matthias A. Rosemann, Thomas Rüst, Christoph A.
spellingShingle	Knechtle, Beat Valeri, Fabio Nikolaidis, Pantelis T. Zingg, Matthias A. Rosemann, Thomas Rüst, Christoph A. Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
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title	Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
title_short	Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
title_full	Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
title_fullStr	Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
title_full_unstemmed	Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
title_sort	do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?
description	The aim of the present study was to examine sex differences across years in performance of runners in ultra-marathons lasting from 6 h to 10 days (i.e. 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 144, and 240 h). Data of 32,187 finishers competing between 1975 and 2013 with 93,109 finishes were analysed using multiple linear regression analyses. With increasing age, the sex gap for all race durations increased. Across calendar years, the gap between women and men decreased in 6, 72, 144 and 240 h, but increased in 24 and 48 h. The men-to-women ratio differed among age groups, where a higher ratio was observed in the older age groups, and this relationship varied by distance. In all durations of ultra-marathon, the participation of women and men varied by age (p < 0.001), indicating a relatively low participation of women in the older age groups. In summary, between 1975 and 2013, women were able to reduce the gap to men for most of timed ultra-marathons and for those age groups where they had relatively high participation.
publisher	Springer International Publishing
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url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899381/
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Do women reduce the gap to men in ultra-marathon running?

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