ArticlePloS one2020
Contribution from cross-country skiing, start time and shooting components to the overall and isolated biathlon pursuit race performance.
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- Stability of Hold and Postural Control During Static Hold Assessment Can Provide Valuable Information for Biathlon Standing Shooting but Aiming Strategy Should Be Acknowledged.European journal of sport science · 2025Article
- Performance indicators in women's and men's biathlon relay.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Participation but not success in youth and junior World Championships is important for overall ranking in the biathlon World Cup during adult age.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Long-term development of performance, physiological, and training characteristics in a world-class female biathlete.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- The Effect of Rifle Carriage on the Physiological and Accelerometer Responses During Biathlon Skiing.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeBiathlon is an Olympic sport combining 3-5 laps of cross-country skiing with rifle shooting, alternating between the prone and standing shooting positions between laps. The individual distance and the sprint are extensively examined whereas the pursuit, with start times based on the sprint results, is unexplored. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the contribution from start time, cross-country skiing time, penalty time, shooting time and range time to the overall and isolated performance in biathlon World Cup pursuit races.
methods38 and 37 stepwise linear regression analyses for each of the races were performed, including 112 and 128 unique athletes where 20 and 13 athletes had more than 20 results within top 30 during the seasons 2011/2012-2015/2016 in men and women, respectively.
resultsStart time (i.e. sprint race performance) together with penalty time, explained ~80% of the performance-variance (R2) in overall pursuit performance in most races (p<0.01). For isolated pursuit performance, penalty time was the most important component, explaining >54% of the performance-variance in the majority of races, followed by course time (accumulated R2 = .91-.92) and shooting time (accumulated R2 = .98-.99) (p<0.01). Approximately the same rankings of factors were found when comparing standardized coefficients and correlation coefficients of the independent variables included in the regression.
conclusionStart time (i.e. sprint race performance) is the most important component for overall pursuit performance in biathlon, whereas shooting performance followed by course time are the most important components for the isolated pursuit race performance.
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