Assessing the whole-match and worst-case scenario locomotor demands of international women's rugby union match-play.

Objectives: To profile the distances covered during international women's rugby union match-play and assess the duration-specific worst-case scenario locomotor demands over 60-s to 600-s epochs, whilst comparing the values determined by fixed epoch (FIXED) versus rolling average (ROLL) methods of worst-case scenario estimation and assessing positional influences.

Design: Descriptive, observational.

Methods: Twenty-nine international women's rugby union players wore 10Hz microelectromechanical systems during eight international matches (110 observations).