The given bar chart illustrates the number of male and female participants in four different years: 1924, 1952, 1984 and 2012, while the line graph shows the total number of participants in the four years. Overall, a constant increase can be observed over the period in the line graph, whereas the number of participants both genders went up.
The total number of participants showed an upward trend. In the early twentieth century, the number of participants was roughly 3,000, and it soared and reached to 10,000 participants in 2012. The sharpest rise was experienced between 1984 and 2012 by going up nearly 4,000 people. In other years, the increase can be observed as approximately 2,000 people.
In 1924, participants almost consisted of only males, whereas the difference of figure between men and women showed a remarkable decrease over the period. 1984 is the first time the number of women participants is more than a thousand. In the early the twenty first century, the women participants nearly reached 5,000 people by rising five-fold.
