Where do the fastest triathlets in the, Ironman Hawaii come from?

Nation related participation and performance trends in ‘Ironman Hawaii’ from 1985 to 2012 The ‘Ironman Hawaii’ is the ultimate Ironman triathlon in the world and the World Cup of the Ironman Triathlen.For this competition, every starter has to qualify and the question arises where the best Ironman triathlets in the world. We have analyzed all finishers from 1985 to 2012 on the ‘Ironman Hawaii’ due to their origin.Most finishers come from the US (47.5%), followed by Finishers from Germany (11.7%), Japan (7.9%), Australia (6.7%), Canada (5.2%), Switzerland (2.9%), France (2.3%), England (2.0%), New Zealand (1.9%), and Austria (1.5%). For women, the number of finishers from Germany increased the most fastest, followed by athletes from Australia, Canada and the USA.The men showed the greatest increase in athletes from France, Austria, Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, USA and Switzerland.In 2012, the fastest times were achieved by women by participants from the United States, with men by participants from Germany.

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What is changing during a 24-hour mountain bike race?

Changes in foot volume, body composition, and hydration status in male and female 24-hour ultra-mountain bikers The effect of a 24-hour load was already examined for running and cycling, but not in a mountain bike race. A Czech group has now studied 24-hour mountain bikers in relation to changes in body composition, fluid budget and a total swelling of the feet.

It showed that it came to a decrease in body mass as well as the fat mass while the muscle mass remained unchanged.In contrast to ultra skiers, the mountain bikers did not come to a swelling of the feet.Likewise, the liquid balance remained very balanced. The details of this study can be found under https://jissn.biomedCentral.com/Articles/10.1186/1550-2783-11-12

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Difference man woman in long distance

Will women outrun men in ultra-marathon road races from 50 km to 1,000 km? In earlier work, it was speculated that women are able to beat the men on the ultra-long running tracks. We have now analyzed the difference between the genders for the running tracks from 50km to 1000km from the period from 1969 to 2012. It showed that the runners were faster over the years.The women were also closer to men over 50km and 100km, but not over 200km and 1000km.

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New book chapters

Two new book chapters over ‘ultramarathon’ and ‘ultracycling’ Obviously, our works are read.In addition to the enduper, the athlete, the works are also read by interested scientists. Prof. Francesco Feletti from Ravenna in Italy is the publisher of a new book “Extreme Sports Medicine” at Nova Science Publishers in New York.He has also stood up many of my work and I can now write a chapter about ‘Ultramarathon’. Then Prof. Stephen S. Cheung from Canada has sought people looking for his book “Cycling Science” that will appear at Human Kinetics.Human Kinetics is the largest publisher worldwide for performance physology.

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Swimming Science

Friday Interview: Beat Knechtle Discusses Long Course Training We recently published a job in which we compare the difference in performance for all the freestyle routes from 50m to 1500m on the short run (25m Pool) and Langbahn (50m Pool) for swimmers at a national and international level. The work has found the way up to www.swimmingscience.net and thus to the enduper. The publisher Dr.G. John Mullen then made an interview, which can be found at www.swimmingscience.net/2014/02/friday-interview-beat-knechtle.html

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Women are faster than men in long-distance swimming

Women Outperform Men in Ultra-Distance Swimming - The ‘Manhattan Island Marathon Swim’ From 1983 to 2013 So far, we have previously examined several sports and events on the difference in performance between men and women and always the men were faster than the women. Except for long-distance swimming, where women can compete partly with the men.Now we have found a competition in which the women could effectively distance the men. In the, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim ‘, a 46 km long swimming competition around Manhattan at water temperatures of significantly below 20 degrees, the best women are around 12-14% faster than the best men.

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Relationship of physique and training with performance

Relationship of Anthropometric and Training Characteristics with Race Performance in Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Athletes A large number of peculiarities of body construction such as weight, size, BMI, body fat, skin fold thicknesses, lengths and sizes of extremities show a connection with endurance performance. Also training-specific aspects such as volume and intensity have an impact on competition performance.In addition to these aspects, the personal experience in the sense of previously completed competitions and personal best times is central to performance.

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Comparison of female and male half marathon runners

A Comparison of Anthropometric and Training Characteristics between Female and Male Half-Marathoners and the Relationship to Race Time Mostly the marathon track is mentioned when it comes to longer treads and the half marathon track treats very stepmother. However, the finish numbers in the US are a different trend in the sense that the figures of half marathon runners increase and the marathon runners rather decrease.We have now examined whether and how male from female half-marathon runners distinguish and specifically what qualities could be responsible for a fast term. In the men, body fat, running speed in training and BMI were correlated with the competition time.When the BMI has been removed from the regression model, the coefficient changed only slightly.

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Compare over 5 km, 10 km and 25 km long distance swimming

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%.

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