Another Male vs Female Sports Comparison Question

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McEnroe should win against any woman alive. Agassi is less than a year into retirement and would be unlikely to drop more than a single game to any woman (I mean really, he was the best service returner of all time and that would mean a lot here).

[BadBoyBenny]

My guess is the youngest here are bench press, race car driver, and tennis.

[mattsey9]

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My guess is the youngest here are bench press, race car driver, and tennis.

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Mario Andretti (66) d. Danica Patrick
Jimmy Conners (54) d. Maria Sharapova

[glass_onion]

You are grossly underestimating the endurance events. Especially around mid 40's the human body's endurance wanes significantly. Women's mile times were in the low 4:00, under 4:10 definetely. Marathon's around 2:20:00-2:25:00. I haven't studied the times of 50 year old men, but I'd be very shocked if anyone over 50 could do it. In the marathon I'd decrease to around 45.

Does anyone have stats like this on the sprint events???

[Greeksquared]

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I didnt look at your answers first.

Golf 55-60

Tennis 50

Basketball - 55

Quarteback 60

Linebaker 55

Pitcher 65

Baseball non pitcher (including batting ability) 60

Bench Press (as percent of bodyweight) 70

Mile Run 48

Marathon 45

Indy Race Car Driver- The best indy car racer may be a woman one day

Bowling- 60

Three Cushion Billiards- 65

My guesses would be 58, 53, 55, 62, 64, 57, 60, 72, 47, 48, 65, 65, 81

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[El Diablo]

David,

I think you're skewing a bit high on some of these, I'll give it some thought and respond later on most of these.

Marathon was one where I thought you were a few years high. I guessed about 40. You were a little closer than I thought, but still a few years high. A quick check finds this (all-time records):

2:15:25 Radcliffe, Paula

M 40 2:08:46 Andres Espinosa
Joshua Kipkemboi (43, KEN) 2:11:45
M 45 2:15:51 Kjell Erik Stahl

So, probably somewhere around 44 now.

I thought mile you'd be further off. Let's see.

M 40 4:02.53 David Moorcroft
M 45 4:16.75 David Sirl
M 50 4:27.9 Nolan Shaheed

4:12.56 by Svetlana Masterkova

So, very similar and just slightly lower, probably around 43 for that.

Interesting.

http://www.mastersathletics.net for lots of detail.

[mattsey9]

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Indy Race Car Driver- The best indy car racer may be a woman one day





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No chance. Driving an Indy car for 500 miles is an extremely grueling task, and a woman would be physically disadvantaged.

Now drag racing is a different story altogether. It is shorter in duration and less reliant on physical prowess. In fact, Shirley Muldowney won three NHRA titles in Top Fuel in the late 70's/mid 80's.

[Justin A]

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Pitcher

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Nolan Ryan (50) vs. whomever

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Probably a typo by you but he's 60. And yeah definitely still better than any woman. I know for certain that five years ago he could still top 90 mph.

[ALawPoker]

I think QB has gotta be a little higher. There is a big "mental edge" component that figures in when you consider that not many females play competitive football, and none play professionally. Even if the female has a great arm, she doesn't have the experience of reading world class defenses her whole life. And I don't mean this as some sort of intangible -- the mental/experience side of quarterbacking is a very big deal.

[eurythmech]

The three cushion billiards figure seems too high.
I don't know a lot about three cushion billiards, but given that there are some successful women in pool (the only one I know of is Ewa Mataya Laurance. But I think there have been a number of other professional female pool players.
Probably not as good as the men, but surely good enough to beat some 81 year old geezer. And how different is three cushion?

As for snooker I know that the best women are light years behind the best men. Or 100th ranked men. But still, 81...