Band 6+: The table below illustrates UK participation in selected sports by gender between 2005/06 and 2008/09. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table gives information of British men and women who participated in selected sports from June 2005 to September 2008.

Overall, there were consistently more men participated in cycling and jogging throughout the given period. Swimming was the only sport that had more females participants compared to males.

There were almost twice as many men participated in running sport compared to women in June 2005 (6.9% and 3.5% respectively). From this point, both figures increased steadily by almost 1% for men (7.6%) and more than 1% for women (4.8) in September 2008. Regarding cycling, males participants increased by almost 2% from 12.7% in June 2005 to 14.4% in September 2008. In contrast, females participants declined slightly from 7% to 6.4%.

Although swimming saw a drop in women participations, it remained as the only sport dominated by for women compared to men. At the beginning, there was 18% females in the sport but the amount dropped to roughly 16.5% by the end, while men declined from 13.3% to 13%.