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November 20, 2007International Journal of Sports Medicine

Are There Limits to Swimming World Records?

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Population

100-m, 200-m, and 400-m front-crawl world-record swimming speeds for men and women from 1 May 1957 to the…

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ANAlan NevillUniversity of EssexGWGreg WhyteLiverpool John Moores UniversityRHR HolderUniversity of Wolverhampton

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Plateauing records and stable gender gap suggest performance ceilings in swimming; leaves open whether training or physiology now limits further gains.

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Population
100-m, 200-m, and 400-m front-crawl world-record swimming speeds for men and women from 1 May 1957 to the present time
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Outcome
Plateauing of swimming world records and inequality between men and women's swimming performances

Swimming world-record speeds are plateauing and show a consistent 10% gender inequality, similar to running.

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Nevill et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a90db8ff61bbdbd5ac1a390https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-965088
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