Kinesiology Analysis of Athletics at the Ancient Olympics and of Performance Differences Between Male and Female Olympic Champions at the Modern Games in Running, Swimming and Rowing

Stefani, Raymond T.

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“…Previous research has highlighted that the ability to produce power in land-based sport tests is relative to lean body mass. 42–44 While measurement of the lean body mass values of world-class swimmers would no doubt provide further valuable information, the measurements are not readily available in the majority of studies or online sources. Therefore, it is less clear if body composition is critically important for successful performance in swimming.…”

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The age, height, and body mass of Olympic swimmers: A 50-year review and update

Mallett

Bellinger

Derave

et al. 2020

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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A difficulty in identifying the optimal age, height, and body mass of swimmers is the heterogeneity of the athletes examined (i.e., gender, caliber), the variability in race distance and stroke, and the influence of time. Nonetheless, age, height, and body mass remains the most readily available data of all athlete characteristics, supporting their contribution to the prediction of performance. This review presents the findings of previous studies over the last 50 years and offers new insights by examining data from swimmers competing at the 1968, 1992, and 2016 Olympic Games. Our data investigates gender differences in age, before exploring gender-specific variations in the age, height, and body mass across year, distance, stroke, and caliber. We show that there are differences in swimmers competing at the 2016 compared to the 1968 and 1992 Olympic Games. Today the age of world-class swimmers is independent of gender, race distance and stroke, as well as caliber. Swimmers competing in freestyle are taller and heavier than in butterfly, while height remains associated with performance in some, but not all events in female swimmers. In 2016 the average age, height and body mass of World-class swimmers is 22.7 ± 3.6 and 23.2 ± 23.3 years, 175.1 ± 6.6 cm and 188.3 ± 6.0 cm and 63.8 ± 6.8 and 81.3 ± 7.3 kg for females and males respectively. These findings provide coaches with a new perspective on the optimal age, height, and body mass of world-class female and male swimmers.

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The age, height, and body mass of Olympic swimmers: A 50-year review and update

Mallett

Bellinger

Derave

et al. 2020

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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“…Another topic of research has been the comparison between ancient and modern Olympic Games. Stefani (2017) compared the athletic performance of athletes in the ancient Olympic Games and modern games. The focus of the paper was on male-female differences in various periods of modern Olympic Games.…”

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ATINER is an independent and non-profit Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato"s Academy and Aristotle"s Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER"s downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles" Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER"s mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people"s opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one"s opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the "truth" are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER"s name.

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“…We plan to investigate possible reasons for injuries by determining how the stress is generated. One possible idea is to investigate why female runners have more frequent ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears than men [27].…”

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Modelling Human Gait using a Nonlinear Differential Equation

Schmalz

Paul

Shorter

et al. 2021

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We introduce an innovative method for the investigation of human gait, which is based on the visualisation of the vertical component of the movement of the centre of mass during walking or running, in the space of the coordinates position, velocity, and acceleration of the centre of mass. Collected data has been numerically approximated by the best fitting plane for a linear model and by the best fitting curve for a non-linear model. The resulting equation for the best fitting plane or curve in this space is a differential equation of second order. The model that we suggest is a Duffing equation with coefficients that depend on the height of a walker or runner and on the angular frequency of the oscillation. Solutions to those Duffing equations have been compared with the data, both visually and by computing the mean squared error. Future plans for applications of the new method are proposed.

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Kinesiology Analysis of Athletics at the Ancient Olympics and of Performance Differences Between Male and Female Olympic Champions at the Modern Games in Running, Swimming and Rowing

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

The age, height, and body mass of Olympic swimmers: A 50-year review and update

The age, height, and body mass of Olympic swimmers: A 50-year review and update

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Modelling Human Gait using a Nonlinear Differential Equation

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