Fig 1.
Participants by event status and sex.
DNF = did not finish, DNS = did not start, DQ = disqualified.
Fig 2.
Split and overall IRONMAN® race times histograms for women and men.
Table 1.
Average split and overall race times (HH:MM:SS).
Fig 3.
Number of finishers by sex and men-to-women ratio over the years between 2002 and 2022.
Fig 4.
Trends of average and best race times for IRONMAN® age group triathletes.
Fig 5.
Trend of the sex difference across years in overall race time.
Table 2.
Number of finishers by age group for women and men with the overall race times for each age group (HH:MM:SS).
Table 3.
Men-to-women ratio across age groups.
Fig 6.
Split and overall race times for women and by age group.
Men were always faster than women in each age group (p<0.05).
Fig 7.
The performance difference between the sexes (in percent) across age groups for split disciplines and overall race times.
Fig 8.
Sex difference in swimming by split disciplines by the type of swim, bike, and run course.