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Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races
The aims of the present research were to estimate the age of peak performance (APP) and to examine the role of previous experience at the world-level open water race performances. Finishing positions and age of swimmers (639 females and 738 males) in the 10-km events of World Championship (WCH) and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34842749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfmk6040089 |
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author | Rodríguez-Adalia, Luis Veiga, Santiago del Cerro, Jesús Santos González-Ravé, José M. |
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description | The aims of the present research were to estimate the age of peak performance (APP) and to examine the role of previous experience at the world-level open water race performances. Finishing positions and age of swimmers (639 females and 738 males) in the 10-km events of World Championship (WCH) and Olympic Games (OG) from 2000 to 2019 were obtained from the official results websites. Years of previous experience were computed using the number of previous participations in WCH or OG. APP was estimated using quadratic models of the 10th percentile top race positions and resulted in 28.94 years old for males (R(2) = 0.551) and 27.40 years old for females (R(2) = 0.613). Regression analysis revealed an improvement of 1.36 or 8.19 finishing positions for each additional year of age or experience, respectively (R(2) = 0.157). However, significant differences (p < 0.001) between age and experience showed that the swimmer’s age became less relevant for performance as years of experience increased. These results, in terms of age, are in line with other mass-start disciplines of similar duration (≈2 h) and, in terms of experience, confirm the importance of previous participation in improving tactical decision making during open water races. |
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spelling | pubmed-86289462021-11-30 Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races Rodríguez-Adalia, Luis Veiga, Santiago del Cerro, Jesús Santos González-Ravé, José M. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol Article The aims of the present research were to estimate the age of peak performance (APP) and to examine the role of previous experience at the world-level open water race performances. Finishing positions and age of swimmers (639 females and 738 males) in the 10-km events of World Championship (WCH) and Olympic Games (OG) from 2000 to 2019 were obtained from the official results websites. Years of previous experience were computed using the number of previous participations in WCH or OG. APP was estimated using quadratic models of the 10th percentile top race positions and resulted in 28.94 years old for males (R(2) = 0.551) and 27.40 years old for females (R(2) = 0.613). Regression analysis revealed an improvement of 1.36 or 8.19 finishing positions for each additional year of age or experience, respectively (R(2) = 0.157). However, significant differences (p < 0.001) between age and experience showed that the swimmer’s age became less relevant for performance as years of experience increased. These results, in terms of age, are in line with other mass-start disciplines of similar duration (≈2 h) and, in terms of experience, confirm the importance of previous participation in improving tactical decision making during open water races. MDPI 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8628946/ /pubmed/34842749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfmk6040089 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rodríguez-Adalia, Luis Veiga, Santiago del Cerro, Jesús Santos González-Ravé, José M. Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races |
title | Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races |
title_full | Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races |
title_fullStr | Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races |
title_full_unstemmed | Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races |
title_short | Older or Wiser? Age and Experience Trends in 20 Years of Olympic and World Swimming Championships Open Water 10-km Races |
title_sort | older or wiser? age and experience trends in 20 years of olympic and world swimming championships open water 10-km races |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34842749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jfmk6040089 |
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