Differing male/female AFT standards
Differing male/female AFT standards
Please see below a quick Google comparison for male & female athletes.
It is clearly evident that women are not miles behind men in levels, as is clearly the case in the AFT
What are the men's and women's world record for the marathon?
The fastest time for a marathon, as set in official competition, is 2 hours, 4 minutes and 26 seconds. This is the current men's world record for marathon distance, and was set by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia on 30th September 2007 in the real,-Berlin marathon.
The fastest time run by a woman in a marathon is 2 hours, 15 minutes and 25 seconds. This currently stands as the women's world record for marathon distance, and was set by Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain on 13th April 2003 in the London Marathon.
As for strength read this
Gender effects. Gender differences in strength and muscle growth are well known and expected. Women body builders cannot achieve the same muscle cross-sectional areas as men (1). This consideration leads to the expectation, found in lighter body-weight classes here, that women are taller than men in the same class. In the heavier classes, however, they were shorter than men of the same weight. The transition from taller at lighter weights to shorter at heavier weights was associated with increases in body thickness, indicated by the increased weight-height index, beginning at lighter weights for women. When corrections are made for the difference at which the transition occurred, the ratios of weight lifted to cross-sectional area for women and men were found to be a constant 70% across all body-weight-limited classes
We should all keep fit but the testing standards are miles apart!
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