Sex differences in youth elite swimming

The timing and magnitude of sex differences in athletic performance during early human development, prior to adulthood, is unknown. To compare swimming velocity of boys and girls for all Olympic-length freestyle swimming events to determine the age of divergence in swimming performance. We collected...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2019-11, Vol.14 (11), p.e0225724-e0225724
Hauptverfasser:	Senefeld, Jonathon W, Clayburn, Andrew J, Baker, Sarah E, Carter, Rickey E, Johnson, Patrick W, Joyner, Michael J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Age Androgens Anesthesiology Athletic Performance Biology and Life Sciences Boys Child Child, Preschool Children & youth Chromatography Divergence Endurance Female Gender aspects Gender differences Girls Health sciences Hemoglobin Human development Human performance Humans Male Marathons Mass spectrometry Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Nutrition Participation People and Places Physiology Puberty Running Scientific imaging Sex Sex Characteristics Sex differences Social Sciences Swimming Testosterone Testosterone - blood Track & field Velocity Women Youth
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Zusammenfassung:	The timing and magnitude of sex differences in athletic performance during early human development, prior to adulthood, is unknown. To compare swimming velocity of boys and girls for all Olympic-length freestyle swimming events to determine the age of divergence in swimming performance. We collected the all-time top 100 U.S. freestyle swimming performance times of boys and girls age 5 to 18 years for the 50m to 1500m events. Swimming performance improved with increasing age for boys and girls (p
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0225724