Make America Great Again wrote:
Only thing elite women can beat elite men at is ultra swimming.
What do you consider ultra swimming? 25k is pretty much ultra swimming.
If you noticed at last week's WCs in Korea, most of the male 25k open water swimmers finishers (16 out of the 22) finished between 4:51 and 4:58. The top females were 5:08!! They wouldn't stand a chance with the men.
Horse face wrote:
Equestrianism
The horse is the athlete.
Danica Patrick
Happens in care racing all the time.
American Ninja Warrior
Dreamn wrote:
v678 wrote:
I don't think this is true, but I think Serena Williams in her prime could beat the worst mens pro tennis player.
That’s definitely not true
Whoever she bears would be a poor excuse for a male “pro”
Other women regularly beat Williams. I used to see local schoolboys play visiting world-ranked pro women and beat them. Men's and women's tennis are different universes.
Semenyagoat wrote:
Happens in care racing all the time.
A car is not a horse.
Lots of examples here and people saying "well those aren't reeaaaalllly pros."
I think Danica Patrick did alright in car racing, if that counts.
Aren't there technically pro marathoners who run in the 2:16-2:22 range? They get chicked occasionally.
Then you have Instagram runners like Canaday who make money promoting products and themselves, and can't pump out any worthwhile race results.
Here are women dunking.
easily peasily wrote:
basketball most likely. There's definitely basketball chicks that can beat the worst NBA players
A charity basketball game was played years ago. Varsity women athletes from a Big Ten university. [I do not want to embarrass the women from said Big Ten university.] Rules: Eleven male ministers plus one middle school/junior high school male teenager who does not play team basketball. I was the one junior high non-basketball player. I was the fastest and most fit athlete on the court, I was not the most skilled basketball player. Compared to me, all the varsity Big Ten women were slow. Most were taller and heavier than me but it was easy for me to get open jump shots. It was easy for me to steal the basketball from the women. The ministers and I lost. I was 13 or 14 then. If I would have had eleven friends and cousins my same age, we would have beaten the women D-1 players by 30 or more points. We lost because the ministers were a collection of out of shape men in their mid-thirties. I am sure every D-1 men's team could beat a WMBA all-star team. I am sure every D-2 men's basketball team could beat a WMBA all-star team. Maybe a WMBA all-star team could beat a few male D-3 basketball teams. There are some participating in D-3 athletics who are not highly motivated.
A few years ago, the Canadian women's Olympic hockey goalie played for our city's team in a U.S. minor (third division, I think) pro hockey league. She was the backup and started about 1/3 of the games, as did other backups in the league. Her goals/game and saves/shots numbers were worse than most of the league's starters but better than most of the league's other backups, who were (barely) pros although certainly not elite. (Nice person too - seemed like her main desire was not to be a trailblazer but just to play against better competition than she could get in non-Olympic years, but she was very good about dealing with the fans and press, signing autographs, etc.)
As for Annika Sorenstam, she said she picked the Colonial tournament because it had a relatively short and tight course where her lack of long drives wouldn't be as much of a handicap as it would on other courses, so it seems like she might not have done as well at other tournaments. In the first round, she led the field in driving accuracy, but she putted poorly both days. From what her playing partners and the press said at the time, I had the impression that if she had played it a few years in a row, she probably would have made the cut sometimes. Regardless, she did beat some pros who also didn't make the cut, including Geoff Ogilvy, who won the U.S. Open a few years later and has won over $30m on the PGA tour. She finished only two strokes behind Sergio Garcia.
Not in basketball, baseball, football, soccer, or track.
Pool/billiards
Female chess grandmasters routinely beat their male counterparts
Conclusion:
Very long distance swimming( though if more fat guys swam that might change) , sports that aren't primarily athletic( billiards) , Sports that aren't sports( chess), where the athlete is an animal( horse riding) , or there isn't one(car racing)
NBA is the worst example. The top WNBA players wouldn’t make an average men’s college basketball team. The difference in athleticism is astronomical.
Sailing probably has the most overlap. American Ninja Warrior should have a women's division. It's ridiculous. Darn it!
Concluder wrote:
Conclusion:
Very long distance swimming( though if more fat guys swam that might change) , sports that aren't primarily athletic( billiards) , Sports that aren't sports( chess), where the athlete is an animal( horse riding) , or there isn't one(car racing)
No to billiards...what are you joking?
No to chess...what are you smoking?
Hmmm. What part of yes don't you understand?
That's a yes, if you conclude that billiards is primarily athletic, and that chess is a sport.
Billiards isn't much tougher than knitting and chess is about outlier intelligence, which can strike some females, of course. It's super stretchy to call chess a sport. No?