Comparison of Running Strategy in African and Non-African Athletes in the 5,000-Meter Athletics Event: A Sectional Study

• Autor(a) principal: Borba, Diego Alcantara
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Martins Bernardes , Felipe, Santos Diniz, João Paulo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Educação Física
• Texto Completo: https://revistadeeducacaofisica.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/2768
• topic: corrida; alto rendimento; competição esportiva; running; high-performance; sports competition

Introduction: African athletes predominated long distance running in athletics for some decades. Nevertheless, running strategy phenomenon still need further investigation. Objective: To compare the running strategy in African and non-African 5.000 m runners during competition event. Methods: Data were extracted from 43 athletes from the men's 5.000m finals of the last three world championships. These athletes were divided into two groups: African (n=30) and non-African (n=13) athletes. The velocity reached at each kilometer was used to determine the running strategy. Results: There was no difference in running velocity throughout the splits (km) between the groups. The splits 1 and 2 were smaller than the other splits and the splits 3 and 4 were smaller than the split 5 (p<0.05). Conclusion: There was no difference in the running strategy between African and non-African athletes and the running velocity tends to increase throughout the race.