In this paper, we report survival estimates for male and female Olympic medal 
winners and for male and female finalists at the British and U S national tennis 
championships. We find a consistent longevity advantage of Olympic medal-winning 
female athletes over Olympic medal-winning male athletes competing separately in 
the same events since 1900 and for female finalists over male finalists 
competing separately in the finals of the national tennis championships of 
Britain and of the United States since the 1880s. This is the case for sample 
mean comparisons, for Kaplan-Meier survival function estimates, including life 
expectancy, and for Cox proportional hazard estimates, which show statistically 
significant lower hazard rates for women with birth year and other variables 
constant. The female longevity advantage over males is similar in the early 
period samples (birth years before 1920) and in the full period samples, and is 
5-7 years.