Nevill, Alan M.; Whyte, Gregory P.; Holder, Roger L.; … - 2007
The purpose of this article was to investigate whether swimming world records are beginning to plateau and whether the … inequality between men and women's swimming performances is narrowing, similar to that observed in running world records. A … flattened "S-shaped curve" logistic curve is fitted to 100-m, 200-m, and 400-m front-crawl world-record swimming speeds for men …