Abstract

The sprints are the most extensively covered events by NSA bibliographies, which underlines the immense interest in sprint research and training-oriented literature. This is the sixth bibliography about sprint training. The first was published in the very first issue of NSA (1/1986) and contained 87 sources published between 1981 and 1985. The second was published in issues 1 and 2 of 1991 and included 74 sources published between 1986 and 1991. The third appeared in issue 1 of 1995 and included 116 documents. The fourth was published in issue 2+3/1996 and contained a total of 73 documents, most of which were from the years 1994 to 1996. The fifth appeared in issues 4/2006 (part 1) and 1/2007 (part 2) and contained 260 articles, books and book chapters from the years 1990 until the end of 2006. The following bibliography contains 80 articles and books about the sprints from the years 2007 until 2011. This bibliography has been compiled by using SPOLIT, the sports literature database of the Federal Institute of Sport Science (BISp) in Cologne, Germany (www.bisp-datenbanken.de, free access), and SPORTdiscus, the database of the Sport Research and Information Centre in Ottawa, Canada (www.sirc.ca, no free access). In addtion, some of the articles were found by a “free search” in the Central Library of Sports Science at the German Sports University in Cologne and others are from the private library of the author. Verf.-Referat