No gender difference in peak performance in ultra-endurance swimming performance - Analysis of the 'Zurich 12-h swim' from 1996 to 2010

Chinese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Eichenberger, Evelyn ^a   Knechtle, Beat ^b   Christoph, Alexander Rüst ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^b   Lepers, Romuald ^c   Rosemann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b State Hospital St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Endurance; Female; Indoor swimming; Male; Master athletes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SWIMMING; SWITZERLAND; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84865161721     PISSN: 03044920     EISSN: 26660059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4077/CJP.2012.BAA053     Document Type: Article

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