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Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners

The influence of advanced footwear technology (thickness of light midsole foam and rigid plate) on distance running performances was analyzed during an 8-year period. Analysis of variance was used to measure effects of time, gender, shoe technology, and East African origin on male and female top 20...

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Autores principales: Bermon, Stéphane, Garrandes, Frédéric, Szabo, Andras, Berkovics, Imre, Adami, Paolo Emilio
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8100054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33969296
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.653173
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author Bermon, Stéphane
Garrandes, Frédéric
Szabo, Andras
Berkovics, Imre
Adami, Paolo Emilio
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description The influence of advanced footwear technology (thickness of light midsole foam and rigid plate) on distance running performances was analyzed during an 8-year period. Analysis of variance was used to measure effects of time, gender, shoe technology, and East African origin on male and female top 20 or top 100 seasonal best times in 10-kilometer races, half-marathons, and marathons. In both genders and three distance-running events, seasonal best times significantly decreased from 2017, which coincided with the introduction of the advanced footwear technology in distance running. This performance improvement was of similar magnitude in both East African and non-East African elite runners. In female elite athletes, the magnitudes (from 1.7 to 2.3%) of the decrease in seasonal best times between 2016 and 2019 were significantly higher than in their male counterparts (from 0.6 to 1.5%). Analyses of variance confirmed that the adoption of the advanced footwear technology significantly improved the top 20 seasonal best times in female half marathons and marathons and male marathons, with the improvements being more pronounced in females and in long-distance running events. The adoption of this new shoe technology improved female marathon time by ~2 min and 10 s, which represents a significant increase in performance (1.7%).
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spelling pubmed-81000542021-05-07 Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners Bermon, Stéphane Garrandes, Frédéric Szabo, Andras Berkovics, Imre Adami, Paolo Emilio Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living The influence of advanced footwear technology (thickness of light midsole foam and rigid plate) on distance running performances was analyzed during an 8-year period. Analysis of variance was used to measure effects of time, gender, shoe technology, and East African origin on male and female top 20 or top 100 seasonal best times in 10-kilometer races, half-marathons, and marathons. In both genders and three distance-running events, seasonal best times significantly decreased from 2017, which coincided with the introduction of the advanced footwear technology in distance running. This performance improvement was of similar magnitude in both East African and non-East African elite runners. In female elite athletes, the magnitudes (from 1.7 to 2.3%) of the decrease in seasonal best times between 2016 and 2019 were significantly higher than in their male counterparts (from 0.6 to 1.5%). Analyses of variance confirmed that the adoption of the advanced footwear technology significantly improved the top 20 seasonal best times in female half marathons and marathons and male marathons, with the improvements being more pronounced in females and in long-distance running events. The adoption of this new shoe technology improved female marathon time by ~2 min and 10 s, which represents a significant increase in performance (1.7%). Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8100054/ /pubmed/33969296 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.653173 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bermon, Garrandes, Szabo, Berkovics and Adami. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Bermon, Stéphane
Garrandes, Frédéric
Szabo, Andras
Berkovics, Imre
Adami, Paolo Emilio
Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners
title Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners
title_full Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners
title_fullStr Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners
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title_short Effect of Advanced Shoe Technology on the Evolution of Road Race Times in Male and Female Elite Runners
title_sort effect of advanced shoe technology on the evolution of road race times in male and female elite runners
topic Sports and Active Living
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8100054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33969296
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.653173
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