ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2024
Sprinting to the top: comparing quality of distance variety and specialization between swimmers and runners.
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- The effect of hypoxic interventions on swimming performance in competitive athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Training intensity distribution for sprinter swimmers: suggestions for swimming coaches and scientists.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Review
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- Specializing When It Counts: Comparing the Dose-Time Effect of Distance Variety between Swimming and Track Running.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Quantity of within-sport distance variety - what can pool swimmers and track runners learn from each other?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Longitudinal performance trajectories of young female sprint runners: a new tool to predict performance progression.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objectives: To compare performance progression and variety in race distances of comparable lengths (timewise) between pool swimming and track running. Quality of within-sport variety was determined as the performance differences between individual athletes' main and secondary race distances across (top-) elite and (highly-) trained swimmers and runners. Methods: A total of 3,827,947 race times were used to calculate performance points (race times relative to the world record) for freestyle swimmers ( Results: Performance of world-class swimmers differentiates at an earlier age from their lower ranked peers (15-16 vs. 17-20 year age categories, Conclusions: The comparison to track running and lower ranked swimmers, the early performance plateau towards senior age, and the maintenance of a large within-sport distance variety indicates that (top-) elite sprint swimmers benefit from greater within-sport specialization.
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