Seems to have held very steady through out the decades. Women seem to always be about .90 time wise of the men's performance. Some interesting science why that always may be the case.
www.theatlantic.com/.../
The 100 free may well be an outlier considering Dara Torres has the record for women. It would be interesting to see the general trends in the data, though. For example, do women get closer to men with age, stay the same, or get comparatively slower?
SCY Records by age:
Age____M________W________1650 Fr_M_____W_______50 Fr
18-24__15:48.7__17:31.7__0.9020__19.36__22.62__0.8558
25-29__15:44.7__16:50.2__0.9351__18.67__23.08__0.8089 's a SCY 1650 to 50 free comparison by age. Women tend to do better on distance. In both cases, there seems to be a general decline with age. The problem w/ masters is that you get outliers that can skew the data.
The 100 free may well be an outlier considering Dara Torres has the record for women. It would be interesting to see the general trends in the data, though. For example, do women get closer to men with age, stay the same, or get comparatively slower?
SCY Records by age:
Age____M________W________1650 Fr_M_____W_______50 Fr
18-24__15:48.7__17:31.7__0.9020__19.36__22.62__0.8558
25-29__15:44.7__16:50.2__0.9351__18.67__23.08__0.8089 's a SCY 1650 to 50 free comparison by age. Women tend to do better on distance. In both cases, there seems to be a general decline with age. The problem w/ masters is that you get outliers that can skew the data.
