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Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events
(1) Background: The aim of the present study was to examine the characteristics of over 70,000 long-distance finishers over the last four years in Chinese half- and full-marathon events; (2) Methods: The available data of all finishers (n = 73,485; women, n = 17,134; men, n = 56,351) who performed h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266034/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137802 |
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author | Yang, San-Jun Yang, Fan Gao, Yuan Su, Yan-Feng Sun, Wei Jia, Sheng-Wei Wang, Yu Lam, Wing-Kai |
author_facet | Yang, San-Jun Yang, Fan Gao, Yuan Su, Yan-Feng Sun, Wei Jia, Sheng-Wei Wang, Yu Lam, Wing-Kai |
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description | (1) Background: The aim of the present study was to examine the characteristics of over 70,000 long-distance finishers over the last four years in Chinese half- and full-marathon events; (2) Methods: The available data of all finishers (n = 73,485; women, n = 17,134; men, n = 56,351) who performed half- and full-marathon events in Hangzhou from 2016 to 2019 were further analyzed for the characteristics of gender, age and average running speed; (3) Results: The total men-to-women ratio was the lowest in the half-marathon event (1.86) and the highest in the full-marathon event (17.42). Faster running performance in males than in females and faster average running speed in short-distance runners were shown. Gender and race distance were observed to have the most significant effects on average running speed (p < 0.01). For both male and female finishers, the slowest running speed was shown in older age groups (p < 0.01) during the full marathon. Our results indicated that the gender difference in performance was attenuated in the longer race distances and older age groups; (4) Conclusions: Understanding the participation and performances across different running distances would provide insights into physiological and biomechanical characteristics for training protocols and sports gear development in different groups. |
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spelling | pubmed-92660342022-07-09 Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events Yang, San-Jun Yang, Fan Gao, Yuan Su, Yan-Feng Sun, Wei Jia, Sheng-Wei Wang, Yu Lam, Wing-Kai Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: The aim of the present study was to examine the characteristics of over 70,000 long-distance finishers over the last four years in Chinese half- and full-marathon events; (2) Methods: The available data of all finishers (n = 73,485; women, n = 17,134; men, n = 56,351) who performed half- and full-marathon events in Hangzhou from 2016 to 2019 were further analyzed for the characteristics of gender, age and average running speed; (3) Results: The total men-to-women ratio was the lowest in the half-marathon event (1.86) and the highest in the full-marathon event (17.42). Faster running performance in males than in females and faster average running speed in short-distance runners were shown. Gender and race distance were observed to have the most significant effects on average running speed (p < 0.01). For both male and female finishers, the slowest running speed was shown in older age groups (p < 0.01) during the full marathon. Our results indicated that the gender difference in performance was attenuated in the longer race distances and older age groups; (4) Conclusions: Understanding the participation and performances across different running distances would provide insights into physiological and biomechanical characteristics for training protocols and sports gear development in different groups. MDPI 2022-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9266034/ /pubmed/35805460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137802 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yang, San-Jun Yang, Fan Gao, Yuan Su, Yan-Feng Sun, Wei Jia, Sheng-Wei Wang, Yu Lam, Wing-Kai Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events |
title | Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events |
title_full | Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events |
title_fullStr | Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events |
title_short | Gender and Age Differences in Performance of Over 70,000 Chinese Finishers in the Half- and Full-Marathon Events |
title_sort | gender and age differences in performance of over 70,000 chinese finishers in the half- and full-marathon events |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266034/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137802 |
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