Table 2.

Swimming speed and age of the fastest swimmers

	Distance (km)	Annual fastest		Annual ten fastest
		Women	Men	Women	Men
Peak swimming speed (m/s)	5	5.1 ± 0.2	5.5 ± 0.2	5.0 ± 0.2	5.4 ± 0.2
	10	5.1 ± 0.3	5.4 ± 0.2	5.0 ± 0.3	5.4 ± 0.2
	25	4.6 ± 0.3	5.0 ± 0.3	4.5 ± 0.3	4.9 ± 0.3
Age of peak swimming speed (years)	5	22.4 ± 4.6	26.7 ± 3.7	22.5 ± 1.2	24.8 ± 1.0
	10	24.1 ± 4.6	25.6 ± 4.7	23.4 ± 0.9	25.6 ± 1.6
	25	26.8 ± 4.0	27.9 ± 3.8	23.8 ± 0.9	27.2 ± 1.1