Performance analysis of elite lifesavers during competition: effects related to gender, turn of competition, and age category

Corrado Lupo, Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu, Paolo De Pasquale and Paolo Riccardo Brustio

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2019, vol. 19, issue 5, 845-855

Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse elite lifesavers’ official performances according to specific intermediate times recorded during each speciality, and comparing them in relation to genders, turns of competition (qualifications; finales), and age (seniors; youths) categories. For this purpose, the intermediate times of 825 (female: 423, male: 402) individual performances were recorded by means of the official stopwatch of championship and two video cameras synchronised with the official stopwatch of competition. A linear mixed-effects model was applied to verify subgroup differences (p ≤ 0.05). For single specialty, differences emerged for each observed variables (p ≤ 0.001). Differences (p range:

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2019.1664215

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