When in the ‘LOST-Race’ less than three athletes were recorded per category in a certain year, the specific year was excluded from analysis for that specific group. The mean race times of both the annual top and the annual top three athletes were pooled and performance was compared within swimsuit groups (i.e. wearing a wetsuit or not) between sexes and between wetsuit groups within sexes. Additionally, the overall (i.e. all finishers between 2002 and 2012) top ever, top three ever and top ten ever women and men competing with and without wetsuit were determined and compared within wetsuit groups between sexes and within sexes between wetsuit groups