Increase in participation but decrease in performance in age group mountain marathoners in the ‘Jungfrau Marathon’: a Swiss phenomenon?

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Table 6 Sex difference (%) in age groups in the mountain (upper two panels) and the city marathon (lower two panels)

Age group	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	r²	p
Jungfrau Marathon
18–24	8	6	8	8	11	8	5	4	3	5	10	13	7	4	10	0.001	0.906
25–29	4	5	3	5	3	4	6	3	5	4	6	8	5	7	10	0.463	0.005
30–34	9	8	6	5	5	3	4	7	4	7	4	7	9	8	9	0.047	0.436
35–39	7	8	6	7	6	8	6	5	6	6	7	5	3	7	6	0.218	0.079
40–44	12	10	4	6	6	8	7	6	7	5	7	5	5	6	6	0.278	0.043
45–49	9	9	6	8	8	9	8	7	5	8	6	6	8	7	9	0.066	0.354
50–54	11	12	10	7	5	6	5	8	5	9	7	7	6	8	7	0.195	0.098
55–59	5	8	11	4	5	8	6	7	9	8	4	4	7	3	7	0.066	0.353
60–64	3	2	3	1	2	3	4	5	5	8	7	6	8	8	8	0.820	<0.0001
65–69	7	6		7	4	2	3	3	5	2	1	11	8	6	9	0.046	0.457
70–74	1	14									4	7		3	7	0.024	0.685
Lausanne Marathon
18–24	12	29	6	1	1	21	10	5	10	12	6	7	1	21	14	0.005	0.792
25–29	11	21	7	9	10	21	11	13	13	1	5	13	9	4	11	0.141	0.166
30–34	10	19	7	13	10	22	8	12	15	7	6	8	11	10	10	0.099	0.252
35–39	8	17	13	13	10	10	8	4	4	7	7	8	11	7	10	0.192	0.102
40–44	9	15	11	8	10	14	14	11	9	11	7	8	11	11	5	0.176	0.119
45–49	13	28	14	16	6	18	9	10	7	7	15	8	11	12	8	0.241	0.063
50–54	14	21	6	10	8	23	12	14	6	16	7	6	6	7	5	0.265	0.049
55–59	17	15	4	10	6	30	8	22	15	6	9	14	4	8	8	0.071	0.335
60–64	13	19		26	19		1	19	8	25	23	8	11	10	26	0.002	0.865
65–69	19	2	14	10	11			29	29	31	1		22	15	14	0.051	0.480
70–74					26			20					39			0.590	0.442
75–79		53												2