Cycling as the Best Sub-8-Hour Performance Predictor in Full Distance Triathlon
Autor: | Caio Victor Sousa; Lucas Pinheiro Barbosa; Marcelo Magalhães Sales; Patrick Anderson Santos; Eduard Tiozzo; Herbert Gustavo Simões; Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis; Beat Knechtle |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Veröffentlicht: |
2019 |
Quelle: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
Online Zugang: |
http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/7/1/24 https://doaj.org/toc/2075-4663 2075-4663 doi:10.3390/sports7010024 https://doaj.org/article/392962d7e3eb478c8a693df262b7f84e https://doi.org/10.3390/sports7010024 https://doaj.org/article/392962d7e3eb478c8a693df262b7f84e |
Erfassungsnummer: | ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:392962d7e3eb478c8a693df262b7f84e |
Zusammenfassung
For any triathlon distance (short, Olympic, half-distance and full-distance), competitors spend more time cycling than swimming or running, but running has emerged as the discipline with the greatest influence on overall performance at the Olympic distance. However, there is a lack of evidence on which discipline has the greatest influence on performance in the overall full-distance triathlon (3.8 km swimming/180 km cycling/42.195 km running), especially for the fastest performing athletes of all time. The total race times of 51 fastest triathletes (sub-8-hour) were studied, while for the split times, a sample of 44 participants was considered. The discipline that seemed to better predict total race time was cycling (coefficient = 0.828; p < 0.001), followed by running (coefficient = 0.726; p < 0.001) and swimming (coefficient = 0.476; p < 0.001). Furthermore, cycling was the discipline with the highest performance improvement over the years, whereas running had a slightly decrease. In conclusion, cycling seems to be the discipline with greater influence in final result for the full-distance triathlon.