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, pick the guy with a 27:02 PR!
Triathlon
Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Has there ever been a woman more successful in a sport/game/competition dominated by men.
Depends on Definition wrote:
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).
Nope - as I said above, the women player shorter courses as they don't play off the same tees.
*play shorter courses
I was a member of an elite Texas high school basketball team. Our girls volleyball team was elite as well. None of us had any volleyball training. We played them in volleyball and beat them 15-0 and 15-1. Our front line was, however, 6'9".
The differences are massive. I remember seeing some kind of weightlifting chart and realising justg how much - the amounts listed for 'untrained man' were more than for 'elite women'. Seeing the difference in black and white was shocking. Look at someone like Laura Muir - wouldn't she be around 1000th on the UK men's rankings?
Armstronglivs wrote:
JamesD2 wrote:
...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.
Sorenstam did in the tournament I'm talking about.
Kelly Kulick won the PBA Tournament of Champions in 2010.
Tennis
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.
Wrong.
Hou Yifan is female and ranked 87.
There are also indians, arabs and latinos in that top 100.
https://2700chess.com/?per-page=100Easy 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.
Her time of 8:26:18 would have won OVERALL in 20 of the last 42 Kona Ironmans.
track chick wrote:
The differences are massive. I remember seeing some kind of weightlifting chart and realising just how much - the amounts listed for 'untrained man' were more than for 'elite women'. Seeing the difference in black and white was shocking. Look at someone like Laura Muir - wouldn't she be around 1000th on the UK men's rankings?
Laura Muir's 3:55.22 is a National Record (probably the clean European Record)and have been would be 227th in the UK rankings for men in the year 2018. I can't find definitive 1500m all time UK rankings that go down that far however.
251st all time is 3:42.00 for reference.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
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.
Tell that to my roommate in college who swam miles every day but ate it all back and then some.
Marathon
There are guys like Sage Canaday and others that make a living from running (and business' connected to the running, but what constitutes a pro?).
Many are not close to 2:17:01.
Armstronglivs wrote:
Depends on Definition wrote:
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).
Nope - as I said above, the women player shorter courses as they don't play off the same tees.
This is not true when they enter a PGA tournament. There is only one set of tees and all players play from them.
Spelling bee
Tristate wrote:
Tennis
No chance. It's a sport about athleticism. Speed, strength and power are crucial. Schoolboys can beat top women pro's.
Dogfish wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
Nope - as I said above, the women player shorter courses as they don't play off the same tees.
This is not true when they enter a PGA tournament. There is only one set of tees and all players play from them.
And the few women who have entered those tournaments haven't made the cut. Competing on an equal basis with the men they have been totally outclassed, with their participation described by some golf commentators as a joke. It is the same in golf as it is with most other elite sports - men and women don't compete against each other in an open category because the differences are too great. If it were not so there would be no need for separate "tours".
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