Sex differences in performance and pacing in the greatest Quintuple Iron ultra-triathlon race in history: The IUTA World Championship 2024 in France

• Beat Knechtle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: beat.knechtle@hispeed.ch

  Affiliations Medbase St. Gallen Am Vadianplatz, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2412-9103

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• Luciano Bernardes Leite,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Education, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

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• Sasa Duric,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liberal Arts Department, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait

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• Ivan Cuk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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• Marilia S. Andrade,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Volker Scheer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ultra Sports Science Foundation, Pierre-Benite, France

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• Pantelis T. Nikolaidis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

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• Katja Weiss,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-6754

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• Thomas Rosemann,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-6306

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• Pedro Forte

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Sports, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal, Department of Sports, Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of the Douro, Penafiel, Portugal, Research Center for Active Living and Wellbeing (LiveWell), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-6780

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