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- Title
Restoring the real world records in Men's swimming without high-tech swimsuits.
- Authors
Gao, Zhenyu; Li, Yixing; Wang, Zhengxin
- Abstract
The recently concluded 2019 World Swimming Championships was another major swimming competition that witnessed some great progresses achieved by human athletes in many events. However, some world records created 10 years ago back in the era of high-tech swimsuits remained untouched. With the advancements in technical skills and training methods in the past decade, the inability to break those world records is a strong indication that records with the swimsuit bonus cannot reflect the real progressions achieved by human athletes in history. Many swimming professionals and enthusiasts are eager to know a measure of the real world records had the high-tech swimsuits never been allowed. This paper attempts to restore the real world records in Men's swimming without high-tech swimsuits by integrating various advanced methods in probabilistic modeling and optimization. Through the modeling and separation of swimsuit bias, natural improvement, and athletes' intrinsic performance, the result of this paper provides the optimal estimates and the 95% confidence intervals for the real world records. The proposed methodology can also be applied to a variety of similar studies with multi-factor considerations.
- Subjects
SWIMMING records; WORLD records; SWIMMING; WORLD championships; BATHING suits
- Publication
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2020, Vol 16, Issue 4, p291
- ISSN
2194-6388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jqas-2019-0087