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high-performance
sports competition
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Abstract
Introduction: African athletes predominated long distance running in athletics for some decades. Nevertheless, running strategy phenomenon still need further investigation.
Objective: To compare the running strategy in African and non-African 5.000 m runners during competition event.
Methods: Data were extracted from 43 athletes from the men's 5.000m finals of the last three world championships. These athletes were divided into two groups: African (n=30) and non-African (n=13) athletes. The velocity reached at each kilometer was used to determine the running strategy.
Results: There was no difference in running velocity throughout the splits (km) between the groups. The splits 1 and 2 were smaller than the other splits and the splits 3 and 4 were smaller than the split 5 (p<0.05).
Conclusion: There was no difference in the running strategy between African and non-African athletes and the running velocity tends to increase throughout the race.
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