Which female athletes could beat a Top 100 male?

jockeys

car racing

anything that requires power or speed, no way.

Muggsy never dunked in the NBA. He said he dunked in High School and College practices (had 44 inch vert coming out of Wake Forest ), but there aren't video replays of him dunking. What is out of controversy is the fact that he can touch the rim,

Update on Ledecky, she just won the 200m at WC, over a very deep field. There is only one other woman in the world who could beat her, but she chose not to race.

This is a WC 200m victory over a tremendously deep field, 1 day after crushing the 1500WR, and doing 2 fast 200m swims to qualify for the final, which was all done the day after having set the previous 1500WR.

BEAST

Also now that I think about it, floor routine, and diving, are 2 things where the best women are among the 100 best men; however, these events are both based in part upon subjective judging and so do not carry as much weight as lane swimming.

Katie M-F Ledecky.

Think about it. The track equivalents, by time, of the 1500, 800, 400, and 200, are the 5000, 3000, 1500, and 800. She will win them all at this WC, will have set multiple WR's in the 5000 and maybe 800, a CR in the 1500, ranks among the 100 best men in the world in the 5000, ran a WR 5000 and 2 super-fast 800's on the same day, will also be competing on relays, and owns the WR in the 5000, 3000, and 1500.

Ridiculous!

Imagine Dibaba doing this, she might have the capability to get the placements and maybe even the WR's, but no way could she do it within the grueling schedule of a single swim meet. Also, her 3:50.07 1500WR doesn't even come close to the top 100 men this year, the 100th-best man being at 3:38.26

THINK ABOUT IT.

Katie M-F Ledecky.

And without the 1500M on the Olympic program, there's an assumption (encouraged by her camp) that she'll drop down and dabble in the 100 free. Realistically, she can pick up a relay spot on the 4x100 FR, where the American women are generally good for a bronze. The track equivalent of the 100 free is the 400M, so we'd be talking a 5000 M athlete also capable of getting an Olympic medal running a 400M leg.

The 100 free is a different animal. I'm not saying she won't be able to get on the relay squad, but she relies too much on her pull at the moment, and would need to work on her kick.

She is a training monster, so is well-suited for the 1500. I would not be at all surprised to see her lower the WR one more time, and then concentrate on shorter distance.

It will be tough, though. There are some very good young women coming up in the 100, as well as some very good older ones like Coughlin hanging on.

Wait until she tries the event that has a lot of crossover with free--FLY.

I have always liked her swimming. Think of the men's equivalent, Sun Yang, one of the Chinese poster-children for HGH. What a piece of work, he was recently suspended for a positive test for a stimulant. I can't stand those Chinese swimmers. I'm going to print out 4x6's of their faces, and put them on a poster board and on the wall of my office. It should look pretty stupid, like some kind of horrible experiment gone wrong.

Then I can have an office competition, to see who can guess which of them are male, and which are female.

LMAO

KATIE M-F LEDECKY

Czechs everywhere must be proud.

Gaberdine Suit wrote:

Any track athletes?

Tennis?

Golf?

Fighting?

I say none. Do you think there are a hundred 135-140 lb. men on this entire earth who could beat Rousey? Easily.

In golf, it is the short game and not the long game where women cannot compete with men. Anika Sorrenstam and Michelle Wee could/can both drive +300yds, something many men on the PGA tour cannot do.

This is very counter-intuitive, but points out that it is not just power/strength. It is also things like hand-eye coordination.

The last 3 big international team selection meets (2012 Olympics, 2013 Worlds, 2014 Pan Pacs/2015 WCs) the 6th and final relay pool spot has been right around 54.5. Which seems very doable for a 1:55 flat 200 swimmer who has effectively never swam a bad race when it counts, save for Duel in the Pool i, I think 2013 when Ledecky got sick as a dog on the flight to Scotland, lost the 400 free, had to scratch the 800 because of illness, but still managed to gut out a win in the 200.