just look wrote:
OK, I took a random event from Rio 2016, the 10,000m final:
Women's race: 1st = Almaz AYANA (ETH) - 29:17.45
Men's race: 32nd (and last) = Mohammed AHMED (CAN) - 29:32.84
So the answer is yes. :) The guy who came in 31st was faster than the women's race winner though.
This might not be a good comparison. It's likely that Ahmed tried to keep up with the big boys and had a big positive split.
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)
The problem is that fat guys that started swimming long distances would no longer be fat guys.
in esports there is a pro female starcraft 2 player who is one of the best (Scarlett)
Concluder wrote:
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?
What? Was this not a discussion about the game or sport in which a top pro woman can beat a lesser pro male? In this case that would not include chess because there is no female ranked in the top 100 in the world. Its all white and asian guys with massive brainpower.
Male WRs are usually 10-12% better than female WRs.
An easy thought experiment would be cross-checking female WR times with male result tables, and then look at the prize pools. If the prize money is enough to make a living the answer to your question is yes. If not, then a male who performs at female WR level would not be considered a pro.
Marathon. If you get an OTQ you are a pro but women run faster than the men's OTQ
Something else wrote:
Concluder wrote:
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?
What? Was this not a discussion about the game or sport in which a top pro woman can beat a lesser pro male? In this case that would not include chess because there is no female ranked in the top 100 in the world. Its all white and asian guys with massive brainpower.
Well the OP asked about sports? I don't see where games entered officially into the OP's question. However if they do (chess) ,I thought a woman could stand out. Maybe not?
Maybe Deep Blue identifies as female?
Shaq wrote:
Entertain me
If you truly want to go down the rabbit hole, consider a convo I had with Laz when he was in town. He mentioned in a way that only Laz can, to take a look at the average times of those successfully completing Barkley and those of women attempting. Basically, a woman isn't going to finish Barkley the way it's set up and those that set it up are fine with that, albeit patriarchy at its epitome.
Chess 100%.
Judit Polgar was top 10 in the world. She used to mop the floor with professional lower-level GMs.
Something else wrote:
What? Was this not a discussion about the game or sport in which a top pro woman can beat a lesser pro male? In this case that would not include chess because there is no female ranked in the top 100 in the world. Its all white and asian guys with massive brainpower.
Wrong...
Yifan Hou is currently 88th.
https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=menSDSU Aztec wrote:
just look wrote:
OK, I took a random event from Rio 2016, the 10,000m final:
Women's race: 1st = Almaz AYANA (ETH) - 29:17.45
Men's race: 32nd (and last) = Mohammed AHMED (CAN) - 29:32.84
So the answer is yes. :) The guy who came in 31st was faster than the women's race winner though.
This might not be a good comparison. It's likely that Ahmed tried to keep up with the big boys and had a big positive split.
+1
Mo Ahmed 10000 PB is 27:02 and 7 days after the Rio 10000 race, he ran the Rio 5000 finial in 13:05.
Not in 25k thats for sure wrote:
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.
1500m free is not ultra swimming. And Ledekcy's WR is 24 sec faster than the OT qualifying time for men. There are four other women under the standard (15:44.89) and another who missed by 0.04.
http://www.fina.org/fina-rankings/results?top=50&gender=Women&year=All&poolConfiguration=LCM&distance=1500&style=All×Mode=AllTimes&continentId=All&countryId=All&type=overall-rankingsJamesD2 wrote:
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 really comparable. Women golfers don't play off the same tees as the men.
Triathlon. At the 2018 World Championships, the female winner, Daniela Ryf, would have placed 25th in the men’s race, beating more than half of the men’s field, which was theoretically the best 50 pro men in the world.
Easy Peasy 123 wrote:
Triathlon. At the 2018 World Championships, the female winner, Daniela Ryf, would have placed 25th in the men’s race, beating more than half of the men’s field, which was theoretically the best 50 pro men in the world.
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Depends on the definition of a "sport". If golf is considered a sport then yes, there are definitely pro female golfers who can beat the worst pro male golfers. I'm talking about the David Duvals, Tom Watsons of the world (not that Duval and Watson have anything in common other than that they are pro golfers and are no longer very good).
just look wrote:
OK, I took a random event from Rio 2016, the 10,000m final:
Women's race: 1st = Almaz AYANA (ETH) - 29:17.45
Men's race: 32nd (and last) = Mohammed AHMED (CAN) - 29:32.84
So the answer is yes. :) The guy who came in 31st was faster than the women's race winner though.
Nice to See Mohammad Ahmed at 27:01 now :)
golf is not a sport.
car racing, darts, bowling, baseball, chess, tiddlywinks, jacks, equestrian not sports
Serena Williams would be very lucky to win a set against the 300th ranked NCAA man, and would lose to most high school state champion boys.
Sports like archery or shooting? They're in the Olympics...
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Rest in Peace Adrian Lehmann - 2:11 Swiss marathoner. Dies of heart attack.