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?
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I made another analysis. It is related to the choice of events. In 2006 World Masters Champs, both men and women chose freestyle events most. If we index the average number of participants in each freestyle event as 100,
in womens races, number of participants in each breaststroke event is 82, backstroke 64, IM 62 and butterfly 55
in mens races, breaststroke 91, butterfly 83, IM and backstroke 65 each.It means
most people love freestyle and breaststroke,
men like butterfly events, but women hate butterfly
I made another analysis. It is related to the choice of events. In 2006 World Masters Champs, both men and women chose freestyle events most. If we index the average number of participants in each freestyle event as 100,
in womens races, number of participants in each breaststroke event is 82, backstroke 64, IM 62 and butterfly 55
in mens races, breaststroke 91, butterfly 83, IM and backstroke 65 each.It means
most people love freestyle and breaststroke,
men like butterfly events, but women hate butterfly
