Table 4.

Smoothed age‐ and sex‐specific percentile values for V˙O_2peak (ml kg⁻¹ min⁻¹) among a population‐based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia

	n	P3	P10	P25	P50	P75	P90	P97
Boys
9 to 9.9	215	41.1	41.2	41.2	43.5	45.8	48.2	51.6
10 to 10.9	399	39.3	39.3	41.5	43.9	46.4	48.8	51.2
11 to 11.9	408	37.3	37.3	39.8	42.3	44.7	47.4	49.7
12 to 12.9	381	35.4	35.4	37.9	40.5	45.4	48.1	50.6
13 to 13.9	391	33.4	35.9	38.7	41.3	43.9	49.2	51.8
14 to 14.9	434	31.5	34.2	39.4	42.3	47.5	50.2	53.1
15 to 15.9	403	29.6	35.0	37.9	43.3	46.2	49.0	51.7
16 to 16.9	340	30.5	33.3	36.2	41.9	44.7	50.3	53.1
17 to 17.9	240	25.7	31.5	37.4	40.3	46.0	49.1	52.0
Total	3211	32.3	35.9	39.3	42.3	46.0	49.0	52.0
Girls
9 to 9.9	293	41.1	41.2	41.2	43.4	43.5	45.8	48.2
10 to 10.9	628	39.3	39.3	39.3	41.7	43.9	46.4	48.8
11 to 11.9	585	37.3	37.3	37.3	39.8	42.3	44.7	47.2
12 to 12.9	464	35.4	35.4	37.8	40.3	40.5	43.0	45.6
13 to 13.9	429	33.4	33.4	36.1	38.5	41.2	43.9	46.5
14 to 14.9	555	31.5	31.5	34.2	36.9	39.6	42.3	45.0
15 to 15.9	434	29.6	29.6	32.3	35.0	37.7	40.6	46.0
16 to 16.9	383	27.6	30.3	30.5	33.3	36.2	39.0	44.6
17 to 17.9	262	25.7	28.5	28.6	31.5	34.5	40.2	43.2
Total	4033	28.6	31.5	35.2	39.3	41.7	44.1	46.5

P = percentile.