Table 4.

Statistics of climbing, contact and reach time, and the number of actions at international lead climbing competitions.

		Total climbing 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 upper limbs grapping only	Reach time lower limbs
Qualification round women	N	10	20	20	584	705	564	275	682
	M	3:39 min:s	29.4	35.5	8.01 s	6.98 s	2.17 s	0.69 s	1.21 s
	SD	0:48 min:s	4.8	5.2	4.81 s	7.04 s	2.23 s	1.14 s	1.56 s
	Median	3:40 min:s	28.5	35.5	7.60 s	4.87 s	1.36 s	0.43 s	0.73 s
Qualification round men	N	16	32	32	874	1,000	831	473	958
	M	4:55 min:s	27.3	31.3	6.61 s	6.18 s	2.07 s	0.65 s	1.38 s
	SD	0:49 min:s	3.5	4.2	3.64 s	8.05 s	2.21 s	0.71 s	1.94 s
	Median	4:40 min:s	27.5	32.0	6.10 s	3.87 s	0.77 s	0.47 s	0.77 s
Semifinal and final round women	N	26	52	52	1,393	1,602	1,356	728	1,587
	M	4:21 min:s	27.9	34.6	5.63 s	6.13 s	1.50 s	0.62 s	1.20 s
	SD	0:56 min:s	7.2	4.2	4.95 s	6.32 s	2.49 s	2.39 s	1.57 s
	Median	4:11 min:s	27.5	34.5	5.25 s	4.17 s	0.53 s	0.43 s	0.8 s
Semifinal and final round men	N	26	52	52	1,432	1,535	1,398	792	1,519
	M	3:55 min:s	28.8	32	6.30 s	5.98 s	1.86 s	0.69 s	1.34 s
	SD	1:08 min:s	8.1	9.2	4.04 s	7.43 s	1.97 s	1.00 s	2.13 s
	Median	3:52 min:s	28.0	30.5	5.95 s	3.73 s	0.77 s	0.47 s	0.73 s

Sample: 37 attempts from 12 female athletes and 43 attempts from 25 male athletes. N, sample size; M, mean; SD, standard deviation.