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Does the wetsuit have an effect in long-distance swimming?

Swimming performances in long distance open-water events with and without wetsuit Until now, it could be clearly shown that swimmers benefit from a floating suit when swimming in a basin over short to medium routes. However, it has not been studied if a swimsuit brings something when the athletes swim on long to very long stretches in the open waters.And we do not know if men and women benefit equally.For this purpose, we examined the performance at 26 km long marathon swimming in Lake Zurich and 3.8 km long, Lake Ontario Swim Team Race. At both events, the floats can start either with or without swimsuit.In Zurich’s swimming, the swimmers were not faster with neoprene than the swimmers without neoprene if one compares men against women.However, the 10 fastest men with wetsuit were faster than the 10 fastest women without a wetsuit.In the ‘Lake Ontario Swim Team Race’ were the 10 fastest men with wetsuit faster than the 10 fastest women with neoprene.In addition, the 10 fastest men were without neoprene faster than the 10 fastest women without neoprene. The 10 fastest women with neoprene were faster than the 10 fastest women without neoprene.

Formula for calculating the half marathon time

Prediction of half-marathon race time in recreational female and male runners The half marathon track enjoys great popularity. In earlier work, we tried a formula to develop runners based on simple parameters to estimate the expected conclusion.This gave himself that the running speed in training for men like women is important.For women, the skin folds were added in the armpit and in the men of the BMI. In an evaluation with a larger number of cases showed that body fat and running speed in training for both men as well as for women the best variables are correlated with the half marathon time.We have now looked if we improve the existing formulas resp.can simplify.

Differences between man and woman in windshade drive

Sex and age-related differences in performance in a 24-hour ultra-cycling draft-legal event - a cross-sectional data analysis The difference in the performance of long-distance cycling was already examined for races in which windshade driving is prohibited as the ‘Race Across America’ or the ‘Swiss Cycling Marathon’. On a 24-hour race in Schötz on a completely flat course, windshading was not forbidden and the women had the opportunity to drive behind the men in the windshade.We have evaluated the results from 2000 to 2011. If all men and women were compared, the men did not improve the performance, but the women did not.The men achieved significantly more kilometers in the 24 hours as the women.The difference between the sexes was 19.7 ± 7.8% and did not change over the years.The age of the fastest drivers remained unchanged at the men at 35 ± 6 years, but the women fell from 38 ± 10 to 35 ± 6 years over time.

Breast swimming compared to freestyle

Changes in breaststroke swimming performances in national and international athletes competing between 1994 and 2011 - a comparison with freestyle swimming performances We have compared the performance of chillers from the 1994-2011 period for swimmers at national level (Switzerland) against floats at international level (World Cup finals). Swimmers of both levels improved their performance over the years with the exception of the swimmers on the World Cup level over 50m of men in breast swimming.The difference between the sexes took over the time for the freestyle swimmers at a national level, but not for the Freestilschwimmer at an international level and the chest swimmers, where the sex difference remained constant over the years.

Master thesis Yves Alain Brunner

Deca Iron in Mexiko Yves Alain Brunner has put together the tenfold Ironman 2013 in Monterrey, Mexico, in a small movie, this can be found under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8torId1GnAs

Master thesis Yves Alain Brunner

As part of his master’s thesis, Journalist Yves Alain Brunner has made a small documentary about Beat Knechle and his trophies. It resulted in a movie to find under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzjw916y3mi

Differences between men and women in freestyle swimming

Sex difference in age and performance in elite Swiss freestyle swimmers competing from 50 m to 1,500 m So far, very different numbers for the age of the best performance in the freestyle swimming have been described in the literature. That should have been located at the different collective and efforts of the investigated swimmer.From 50m to 1'500m freestyle, we examined the numbers of Switzerland’s best swimmers from the years 2006-2010. The women achieved the fastest times of 50m to 400m at the age of 20-21 years, over 800m at 25-27 years and over 1,500m at 24-25 years.For men, the age of the best performance was between 22-23 and 25-27 years for 50m to 1'500m. In the period of 10-29 years, the difference in performance over 50m from 2.2 ± 0.4% to 19.0 ± 6.7% increased, more than 100m from 2.4 ± 0.7% to 10.8 ± 2.8% and over 200m from 3.6 ± 1.9% to 10.2 ±3.4%.Over 400m, 800m and 1'500m there was no change, the differences were 6.9 ± 3.0% for 400m, 5.8 ± 3.5% for 800m and 9.7 ± 8.6% for 1'500m.

Short and lang railway in the back swimming

The Effect of 25 M versus 50 M Course Length on Backstroke Performance – An Analysis of National and International Swimmers The difference in speed on the short and like the Langbahn has so far been examined almost exclusively for freestyle. We examined the difference for back floats, where we also looked at whether there is a difference between a national and international level.From the period 2000-2013 we examined for 50m, 100m and 200m back swimming if the swimmers on the short run are more and faster than on the Langbahn. On average, the swimmers were 4.3% faster on the short run, regardless of gender and route length.The difference between the sexes was for swimmers at an international level for all routes on the short-run greater than on the Langbahn, for swimmers at a national level only over 200m.

From Ironman to Double Deca - do the women bring the men?

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.