cad a22 4500 569302943 20200523031518.0 cr unu---uuuuu 190726e20190629xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-171671 doi 10.3390/ijerph16132310 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:171671 610 ddc 31261850 pmid American Masters Road Running Records-The Performance Gap Between Female and Male Age Group Runners from 5 Km to 6 Days Running [Elektronische Daten] [Caio Victor Sousa, Samuel Da Silva Aguiar, Thomas Rosemann, Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis, Beat Knechtle] openAccess eu-repo Recent studies investigating elite and master athletes in pool- and long-distance open-water swimming showed for elite swimmers that the fastest women were able to outperform the fastest men, and for master athletes that elderly women were able to achieve a similar performance to elderly men. The present study investigating age group records in runners from 5 km to 6 days aimed to test this hypothesis for master runners. Data from the American Master Road Running Records were analyzed, for 5 km, 8 km, 10 km, 10 miles, 20 km, half-marathon, 25 km, 30 km, marathon, 50 km, 50 miles, 100 km, 100 miles, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h and 144 h, for athletes in age groups ranging from 40 to 99 years old. The performance gap between men and women showed higher effects in events lengthening from 5 km to 10 miles (d = 0.617) and lower effects in events lengthening from 12 to 144 h (d = 0.304) running. Both other groups showed similar effects, being 20 km to the marathon (d = 0.607) and 50 km to 100 miles (d = 0.563). The performance gap between men and women showed higher effects in the age groups 85 years and above (d = 0.953) followed by 55 to 69 years (d = 0.633), and lower effects for the age groups 40 to 54 years (d = 0.558) and 70 to 84 years (d = 0.508). In summary, men are faster than women in American road running events, however, the sex gap decreases with increasing age but not with increasing event length. Institute of General Practice zora Sousa Caio Victor joint author Da Silva Aguiar Samuel joint author Rosemann Thomas joint author Nikolaidis Pantelis Theodoros joint author Knechtle Beat joint author International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(13):2310 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/171671/1/Sousa_American_Masters_Road_Running.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/171671/1/Sousa_American_Masters_Road_Running.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 700 1- Sousa Caio Victor joint author ZORA 700 1- Da Silva Aguiar Samuel joint author ZORA 700 1- Rosemann Thomas joint author ZORA 700 1- Nikolaidis Pantelis Theodoros joint author ZORA 700 1- Knechtle Beat joint author ZORA 773 0- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(13):2310 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess