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Table 1 Studies investigating the age of peak swimming performance in women (yrs)

From: Change of the age and performance of swimmers across World Championships and Olympic Games finals from 1992 to 2013 – a cross-sectional data analysis

	Reference	Freestyle						Breaststroke		Backstroke		Butterfly		Medley
♀		50 m	100 m	200 m	400 m	800 m	1,500 m	100 m	200 m	100 m	200 m	100 m	200 m	200 m	400 m
National	Buhl et al. 2013b			19.3	18.6									18.2	18.6
	Kollarz et al. 2013b*	19–20	18–21	19–20						18–20	18
	Rüst et al. 2014*	18.9–20.4	19.1	19.3	18.7	18.5	18.1–25.0
	Wolfrum et al. 2013	20–21	20–21	20–21				18–19	18–19
	Zingg et al. 2014c*	19	18	20								18–20	18–20
International	Allen et al. 2014	26.1	24.2	22.3	22.3	21.9		22.2	23.7	22.6	21.9	23.1	22.0	21.7	21.4
	Buhl et al. 2013b			19.3	20.3									18.2	20.8
	Kollarz et al. 2013b*	20–25	20–24	19–21						21–22	19–21
	Schulz and Curnow 1988*		18–20		17–18	16
	Wolfrum et al. 2013	26–27	24–25	22–23				22–23	22–23

*Studies investigating the change in the age of peak swimming performance.

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