Freestyle master’s swimming: Nationality, sex, and performance trends in World Aquatics competitions (1986–2024)

• Wais Ahmad,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Matthias Wilhelm,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Sascha Moreitz,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland

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• Marilia Santos Andrade,

  Roles Formal analysis

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

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• Pedro Forte,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Arkadiusz Stanula,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Swimming and Water Rescue, Institute of Sport Sciences, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

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• Pantelis T. Nikolaidis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Health and Caring Sciences, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

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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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• Mabliny Thuany,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Katja Weiss,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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

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• Lee Hill,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

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• Aldo Seffrin,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Translation Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Beat Knechtle

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

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

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

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

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