How to Form a Successful Team for the Novel Olympic Triathlon Discipline: The Mixed-Team-Relay.

ABSTRACT: The triathlon Mixed-Team-Relay (MTR) is a new race format present for the first time at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021. The results of the ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championship from 2014 to 2019 were collected to provide practical suggestions for forming a successful MTR, such as the importance of each leg and discipline on MTR and Super-Sprint performance. The total relay time (T_relay), the time of each team member (leg-from 1 to 4) (T_leg), and the time of each single discipline (swim, T1, cycle, T2, run) were collected from the official website. Inferential analysis was performed to assess prediction and differences between variables. Leg 3 was shown to be the most important to predict T_relay (0.41), which is also the slower. For both T_relay<

SUBMITTER: Quagliarotti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9225130 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature