Commonwealth Games medallists since 1930 shown to have greater longevity than general population
Top-level sportspeople can live more than five years longer than the rest of the population, a study has found.competitor records from since the inaugural event in 1930, the International Longevity Centre UK found large differences in the longevity of medal winners compared with people in the general population born in the same year., by Prof Les Mayhew and Ray Algar, says that in male competitors in aquatic sports, longevity was increased by 29%, equating to 5.3 extra years of life.
Cycling was the only sport that was not associated with longer lives: the longevity of male competitors was only 90% of that of the general male population, although the authors said this was changing as safety improved. “Politically, it is easy to measure benefit if someone gets sick and you fix them, but if people don’t get sick in the first place, how do we show that we’re saving the nation money?” she said. “That’s the problem we have implementing prevent rather than cure. But prevention is less painful and cheaper.
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