I made a quick analysis of current swimming world records of female and male swimmers and here are my findings: (50 LCM pool, 50,100,200 all styles including 200 IM, 400 free and IM, 800, 1500 free)
Female swimmers are 10.96 % slower on average
In 50, 100 and 200 events the differences are 11.9%, 11.5%, 11.3% respectively (more distance, less variance)
Largest gap is in 50 back (13.6%)
Smallest gap in 1500 free (7.8%)
Considering the average of 50, 100 and 200 of 4 events, largest gap is in backstroke (12.2%), butterfly (11.7%), free (11.4%) and *** (10.3%).In athletics, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500 and 3000 track events, the gap is 10.43%. When I took out the incredible 100 of Florence G. Joyner, the gap is nearly the same as in the swimming (10.98%).
Lowest gap is in 100, with 7.7%, largest gap is in 800 with 12.0%, but most of the differences are between 10% and 12%.
What do you think?
I take solace in the fact that Speedo makes me look exactly like a man in my FSII body suit.
Last year when I first asked a local age-group coach about the advantages of technical suits, he thought for a minute and then replied "Their biggest advantage is probably that they give women swimmers the bodies they had as 14-year olds."
He was too polite to say something like "it also gives aging masters swimmers, such as yourself, a body closer the one they had in college."
I take solace in the fact that Speedo makes me look exactly like a man in my FSII body suit.
Last year when I first asked a local age-group coach about the advantages of technical suits, he thought for a minute and then replied "Their biggest advantage is probably that they give women swimmers the bodies they had as 14-year olds."
He was too polite to say something like "it also gives aging masters swimmers, such as yourself, a body closer the one they had in college."
