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The women's freestyle showed similar but smaller increases in performance and the performance advantage of the suits was most evident in the sprint events.

#FEMALE COMPETITIVE SWIMSUIT MODELS SBART FULL#

The use of full body polyurethane suits in 2009 increased this performance further and by up to 5.5%. The following was found: the introduction of full body swimsuits in 2000 increased performance in the men's freestyle between 0.9 and 1.4% the introduction of polyurethane panels in 2008 increased performance by an additional 1.5-3.5%. This allowed a 5-parameter regression model to be created to quantify the size of the step changes in performance caused by the new swimsuits. The top 25 times in each year going back to 1948 were used to assess the effects of swimsuit technology using a performance improvement index. The new regulations effectively banned all advances in swimsuit technology.

Following the investigation, new swimsuit specifications were implemented and took effect from January 1st 2010. The unprecedented numbers of World records being set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games and the 2009 Rome World Swimming Championships led FINA, the governing body of swimming to question the use of the swimsuits. The improvements seen in swimsuit technology were accompanied by a significant rise in elite performance across the majority of the swimming events. Swimsuit development took a massive leap forward in 2008 with the introduction of full body suits and again in 2009 with the development of the 'Speedo LZR' suits with polyurethane panels and later with all polyurethane suits such as the 'Arena X-Glide'.

Female competitive swimsuit models sbart