Longitudinal analyses of Olympic athletics and swimming events find no gender gap in performance improvement

Kovalchik Stephanie Ann () and Stefani Ray
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Kovalchik Stephanie Ann: National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS 8047, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Stefani Ray: California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2013, vol. 9, issue 1, 15-24

Abstract: Gender gaps in absolute performance at the Olympics are well-established, while gender differences in relative performance have not been considered. We analyzed time trends in male and female performance improvement for medal results in all individual athletics and swimming events in Olympic years with male and female competition. Performance improvement was defined as the percentage change in performance over the gold-medal result of the previous Olympic year. In mixed effects models that accounted for the effects of the order of finish, event, and year, we found a non-significant average difference in performance improvement of

Keywords: athletics; gender bias; mixed modeling; olympics; swimming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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