Quantity of within-sport distance variety – what can pool swimmers and track runners learn from each other?

Autor: Dennis-Peter Born, Jenny Lorentzen, Glenn Björklund, Jesús J. Ruiz-Navarro
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Vol 6 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2624-9367
DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1502758
Popis: ObjectiveTo determine the relationship between success at peak performance age and quantity of within-sport distance variety and compare the dose-time-effect between swimming and track running by determining probability of becoming an international-class female athlete based on the number of different race distances the athletes compete in each year throughout their development process.MethodsRace times of female Tier 2 to Tier 5 freestyle pool swimmers (n = 2,778) and track runners (n = 9,945) were included in the present study. All athletes were ranked according to their personal best at peak performance age. Subsequently, number of different race distances during each year were retrospectively extracted from peak performance to early junior age. Personal best performance points at peak performance age were correlated with the number of different race distances across the various age categories. Poisson distribution determined the dose-time-effect of becoming an international-class athlete based on the number of different swimming strokes.ResultsAt peak performance age, correlation analysis showed a larger within-sport distance variety for higher ranked athletes, particularly for track runners (r ≤ 0.35, P
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