Sex-related trends in participation and performance in the ‘Swiss Bike Masters’ from 1994-2012 The development of participation and performance of endurance athletes was examined primarily for runners and triathletes. Numbers for other sports like mountain bikers are missing.We studied the trends for participation and performance at the Swiss Bike Masters’ from 1994 to 2012.This race is one of the first and most traditional mountain biking races. Unlike competitions in the area and running and triathlon where an increase in participation with an improvement in performance could be detected over the years, it came to the ‘Swiss Bike Masters’ to a decrease in the number of people’s number of participants during the participants in the women’s low andDeep remained deep.The age of the fastest finishers remained unchanged over the years.
The women were over the years faster while the performance in men did not change.The difference in performance took over the years. The whole work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24032336/