Are there any sporting events / activities in which women are superior to men?

battle of sexes wrote:

I would have also thought women can be better than men in figure skating.

Nope. The men have much bigger and more difficult jumps. The also skate faster, have deeper edges, and generally have more power.

women are better than men at food and sex and both

Figure Skating Dad wrote:

battle of sexes wrote:

I would have also thought women can be better than men in figure skating.

Nope. The men have much bigger and more difficult jumps. The also skate faster, have deeper edges, and generally have more power.

Maybe the discussion should then be amended to "...superior to straight men?"

The easy answer the original question is, no. Men are better every sporting event. Looking at activities, maybe. But that has more to do with interest and participation than natural talent.

Figure Skating Dad wrote:

battle of sexes wrote:

I would have also thought women can be better than men in figure skating.

Nope. The men have much bigger and more difficult jumps. The also skate faster, have deeper edges, and generally have more power.

Go to about 1:10 in this video and watch the jump - then check out the next video. No comparison. Just a joke to compare the two.

the answer is no. But there are plenty of sports where the best women can beat YOU.

If you want to beat the best women at 1500m, you have go to sub 3:50. Easier to beat them all at an upper-body sport like powerlifting or baseball pitching. They still don't even play baseball.

SaRchOsuuQusImperator wrote:

FVcking. Women are far better at this than you. Anatomically, physiologically and emotionally women are designed for extreme seXX nad you will never be able to keep up. But you won't see this strong power of theirs because you're too dumb to interest them in sharing it with you. For most women, their vibrator is what knows this best.

Healthy & fit homo sapien males under the age of 35 are anatomically, physiologically and emotionally designed to impregnate one-thousand women a year. What does this have to do with organized sports?

To be clear, the OP is asking if there are any sporting events/activities in which women are superior to men, not whether there are any women on the planet who could best some men in a sporting event/activity. What this means is that you can only compare the top 5% of women to the top 5% of men, and so on and so forth.

Thus, a sporting event/activity in which the best women could conceivably beat the best men would have to be 100% skill-based, because if strength, conditioning or athleticism are at all part of the equation, women will be blown out of the water every time.

You see evidence of this with athletes like Caster Semenya, who some will argue is as close to a man as a woman can be with regards to Testosterone and athleticism. She is far and clear ahead of most elite female 800 runners, but would struggle to make the high school boys state final in a lot of the US.

Why yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f1Ywnjq0A

Jasmin Paris smashes outright record to win 268-mile Spine Race

Posted by Athletics Weekly | Jan 16, 2019 |

Ultra runner completes the brutal non-stop race along the full Pennine Way in 83 hours, improving the previous best by more than 12 hours

British ultra runner Jasmin Paris has smashed the outright Montane Spine Race record by more than 12 hours, covering the 268-mile route along the full Pennine Way in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds.

That time improves the previous best of 95:17:00 set by Eoin Keith in 2016, with Paris becoming the first female to win the race outright. The previous women’s race record was 109:54:00 set by Carol Morgan in 2017.

Paris is no stranger to rewriting the record books – she did so at the Bob Graham Round, Ramsay Round and Paddy Buckley Round in 2016 (the same year she finished sixth at the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc) and told AW about it here.

But the 35-year-old’s latest feat is something else. The Spine Race, which first took place in 2012, is a non-stop challenge from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders, along the full Pennine Way through the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, North Pennines and over Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland to the Cheviots.

Held when the winter weather can be brutal, runners carry their own kit throughout and rest only if and when they wish.

Starting the race on Sunday morning, Spain’s Eugeni Roselló Solé, Paris and Keith had been the early leaders before Solé and Paris broke away.

Paris started to create a gap on Solé on Tuesday evening, around 194 miles into the race, and stretched it through Wednesday before crossing the finish line just after 7pm on Wednesday evening, almost 10 miles ahead of Solé.

There she was reunited with her 14-month-old daughter, who she had reportedly been expressing breast milk for at race checkpoints.

Out on the course Paris, who lives in Edinburgh and is a small animal vet, explained her motivation to take on the 268-mile challenge and said: “Everything is starting to hurt now but it’s not that far any more … once I get to the finish, I’ll have my little girl there.”

John Utah wrote:

Bowling, shooting, curling....should not be any advantage or disadvantage for either gender

Darts. Ping pong? If we stretch the definition of sport a little, then poker, video games, chess, yoga.

trtrtr wrote:

I visited the Olympic Training Center once and they said women have better ability at controlling their heart rate and breathing when in shooting competitions or the xc ski and shoot event, so they are superior to men in that aspect for sure.

Irrelevant when they get to the target minutes later.

3hr-marathoner wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Bowling, shooting, curling....should not be any advantage or disadvantage for either gender

Darts. Ping pong? If we stretch the definition of sport a little, then poker, video games, chess, yoga.

Why do they not have just one world dart championshiP?:

Three Rivers wrote:

Pool Bouhy wrote:

Yeah, but what does this have to do with swimming?

If you're buoyant you don't need to use your arms for balance. You can use them more for propulsion. It's why they got rid of the tech suits. When men use pull buoys they can go a hell of a lot faster.

WHOOSH!

This will be overhyped and give the wrong impression. The race hasn't been going on for long enough to establish the limits of the time needed.

If enough women identify as men, it will soon a level playing field.

Women arent better at anything that is only competitive. But i find them on average better in jobs that need empathy. doctors for example i prefer women by a long shot. Nothing wrong with those gender differences. I also love to watch women sport because they are entertaining even though i know they are doing worse than men