The chart and the graph demonstrate a number of sportsmen which took part in Olympic Games starting from the first event in 1924 and till year 2012 regarding a gender distribution.
Overall, it was steady growing trend in participants amount throughout the period with clear constant prevalence of male competitors.
To begin with, at the first Olympic year there were approximately 3000 participants with a vast majority of men. During the next sixty years the number of female competitors increased and reached about 1500 by 1984. Finally, the sharpest change occurred between 1984 to 2012 years, when the number of females peaked three-fold to more than 4500. Despite the fact that the men's count has been elevated in the same period the male-to-female ratio decreased following growing female sportsmen involvement.
It is worth to mention that the prominent augmentation of total participants number observed in 2012 rallying to nearly 11000.
The chart and the graph demonstrate a
number
of sportsmen which
took part
in Olympic Games starting from the
first
event
in 1924 and till
year
2012 regarding a gender distribution.
Overall
, it was steady growing trend in participants amount throughout the period with
clear
constant prevalence of male competitors.
To
begin
with, at the
first
Olympic
year
there were approximately 3000 participants with a vast majority of
men
. During the
next
sixty years the
number
of female competitors increased and reached about 1500 by 1984.
Finally
, the sharpest
change
occurred
between 1984 to 2012
years, when the
number
of females peaked three-fold to more than 4500. Despite the fact that the
men
's count has
been elevated
in the same period the male-to-female ratio decreased following growing female sportsmen involvement.
It is worth to mention that the prominent augmentation of total participants
number
observed in 2012 rallying to
nearly
11000.