Publications by authors named "Luis Rodriguez-Adalia"
Article Synopsis
- - The study focuses on the pacing strategies and race tactics of elite open water swimmers, emphasizing the impact of enhanced data collection during the 2022 World Championships.
- - Researchers analyzed data from 116 swimmers, looking at average velocity, stroke rate, and positions at 17 timing points throughout a 10 km race, revealing that successful swimmers had less conservative pacing compared to past events.
- - Findings indicate a shift in race strategies, with notable variations in pacing and more aggressive finishes, challenging earlier assumptions based on less precise race data.
Ten-Year Evolution of World Swimming Trends for Different Performance Clusters: A Gaussian Model.
Int J Sports Physiol Perform
December 2024
Purpose: To analyze the evolution of the world ranking in swimming over the last 10 years, with particular attention to the effects of COVID-19 on the different levels of participating athletes.
Methods: The top 200 world-ranked entries in all swimming events (50-m pool) were collected from 2013 to 2022. A mathematical model (Gaussian model) was proposed to evaluate the ranking progression for different performance levels (clusters) according to distance, stroke, and gender.
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.
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