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Survival estimates for elite male and female O lympic athletes and tennis championship competitors
Author(s) -
Coate D.,
Sun R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.575
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1600-0838
pISSN - 0905-7188
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2012.01449.x
Subject(s) - championship , athletes , elite athletes , competitor analysis , elite , world championship , physical therapy , medicine , advertising , marketing , business , political science , politics , law
In this paper, we report survival estimates for male and female O lympic medal winners and for male and female finalists at the B ritish and U S national tennis championships. We find a consistent longevity advantage of O lympic medal‐winning female athletes over O lympic medal‐winning male athletes competing separately in the same events since 1900 and for female finalists over male finalists competing separately in the finals of the national tennis championships of B ritain and of the U nited S tates since the 1880s. This is the case for sample mean comparisons, for Kaplan–Meier survival function estimates, including life expectancy, and for C ox proportional hazard estimates, which show statistically significant lower hazard rates for women with birth year and other variables constant. The female longevity advantage over males is similar in the early period samples (birth years before1920) and in the full period samples, and is 5–7 years.