Table 2.

Statistics of international speed climbing competitions.

		Start time	Number of actions upper limbs	Number of actions lower limbs	Contact time upper limbs	Contact time lower limbs	Reach time upper limbs	Reach time lower limbs
Women	N	20	40	40	421	427	439	466
	M	0.10 s	11.2	11.7	0.25 s	0.39 s	0.49 s	0.33 s
	SD	0.08 s	0.5	1.1	0.08 s	0.14 s	13.24 s	11.03 s
	Median	0.07 s	11.0	12.0	0.23 s	0.40 s	0.36 s	0.28 s
Men	N	20	40	40	365	366	385	406
	M	−0.08 s	9.7	10.2	0.24 s	0.36 s	0.38 s	0.23 s
	SD	0.09 s	0.8	1.0	0.08 s	0.11 s	0.11 s	0.10 s
	Median	−0.07 s	9.0	10.0	0.19 s	0.32 s	0.35 s	0.33 s
Women vs. men	T	5.977	10.505	6.471	2.283	3.179	11.712	11.982
	P	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.023	0.002	<0.001	<0.001
	Mean difference	0.18	1.5	1.6	0.01	0.03	0.12	0.10
	95% CI LL	0.12	1.2	1.1	0.00	0.01	0.10	0.08
	95% CI UL	0.24	1.8	2.0	0.02	0.05	0.14	0.11

Sample: 20 runs from 12 female and 14 male athletes, respectively. N, sample size; M, mean; SD, standard deviation; T, t-value; P, p-value; CI LL, confidence interval, lower limit; CI UL, confidence interval, upper limit.