Swimmers’ Effective Actions during the Backstroke Start Technique [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 The analysis of the external forces of swimming starts has revealed how swimmers propel themselves out of the block, but data should be properly interpreted to fully understand force-generation mechanisms.
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Biomechanical, Physiological and Anthropometric Determinants of Backstroke Swimming Performance: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Sports Medicine - OpenBackground Backstroke swimming is one of the four competitive strokes contested at international swimming events, and the second-slowest stroke after breaststroke.
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Improvement and Variability of Adolescent Backstroke Swimming Performance by Age [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 To predict future performance, coaches rely on their previous experiences with a relatively small number of adolescent competitive swimmers to estimate the rate of improvement.
Khaled Alshdokhi +2 more
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Contributions of each of the four swimming strokes to elite 200-400 individual medley swimming performance in short and long course competitions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Objectives The relative contribution of each of the four strokes to performance, and whether these contributions differ substantially between short course and long course competitions is unclear.
José María González-Ravé +3 more
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Case Report: Impact of dolphin kick implementation during backstroke finishes on swimming performance. From regional to olympic-level swimmers. A comparative case study [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingAccording to the World Aquatics (WA) an updated swimming regulation (SW) concerning the backstroke finish has been implemented, allowing, the swimmers to fully submerge their bodies at once when some part of their head pass the 5-meter mark immediately ...
Konstantinos Papadimitriou +3 more
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Performance Progression and Stability of Female Swimmers Across Different Swimming Techniques from Childhood to Adulthood [PDF]
SportsThe aim of this study was to understand the female swimmers’ annual performance progression and stability between 10 and 18 years across swimming distances and techniques. Data from female Portuguese Top-50 rankings in the short-course pool was extracted
Francisco A. Ferreira +2 more
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Analysis of the fastest backstroke age group swimmers competing in the World Masters Championships 1986–2024 [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBackstroke has been thoroughly investigated in the context of sports science. However, we have no knowledge about the nationalities of the fastest age group backstroke swimmers.
Mielad Fariod +10 more
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Different Lower-Limb Setup Positions Do Not Consistently Change Backstroke Start Time to 10 m
Sports, 2020 Backstroke starts involve the athlete starting from a flexed position with their feet against the pool wall and then extending their ankles, knees, hips and back to push off; however, swimmers can start in different positions.
James Dickey
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Validation of Automatically Quantified Swim Stroke Mechanics Using an Inertial Measurement Unit in Paralympic Athletes [PDF]
Bioengineering, 2023 Biomechanics and training load monitoring are important for performance evaluation and injury prevention in elite swimming. Monitoring of performance and swim stroke parameters is possible with inertial measurement units (IMU) but has not been validated ...
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Impact of course length on swimming performance across age groups and swimming strokes [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroductionSwimmers typically achieve faster times in the same distance events in short course (SC) than in long course (LC) due to the higher number of turns in SC; however, the influence of age and sex on performance differences between SC and LC ...
Javier Iglesias García +5 more
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