The purpose of the graduation paper was to determine the trend of development of results in middle and long distance running for women. Women have been involved in a "male" sport with difficulty and rather late. Athletics, especially running, is the basis for all other sports. We focused on middle and long distance running because we have not yet seen similar research. The aim of the graduation paper was to determine the development of results, the trend of developing height, weight, BMI and age of competitors in middle and long distance running at the Olympic games from 1992 to 2012. In addition, we also determined the number of withdraws in each discipline and analyzed the results of the winners depending on the country from which they come from. We also statistically checked the correlation of age, height, weight and BMI of competitors with the results of their running in middle and long distance tracks. In our research we included all the athletes who competed in the final runs at 800 meters and 1500 meters and running at 10000 meters and in the marathon, where there is only one run, at the Olympic Games from 1992 to 2012. The variables we used in the graduation paper was obtained at the Sports Reference website. Data was then processed with Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 and IBM SPSS Statistics Version 20. Based on the results, we found that the results did not improve linearly, but fluctuate. The average age of competitors in shorter distances is lower than in the marathon. The average height also decreases as the length of the distance increases, such as the marathons are on average 7 cm lower than the competitors at 800 m.
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