Performance patterns and records in the world aquatics masters championships: Where do the most frequently represented nations among the top-ten masters swimmers come from?

• Sascha Moreitz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Radiology, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland

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• Wais Ahmad,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Sanatorium Kilchberg, Kilchberg, 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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• Aldo Seffrin,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Translational Medicine, Federal University of São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8229-8565

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• Marilia Santos Andrade,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Pedro Forte,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Sports Sciences, 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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• Arkadiusz Stanula,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Lee Hill,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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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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• Katja Weiss,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Beat Knechtle

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

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

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

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