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dc.contributor.authorHaugnes, Pål
dc.contributor.authorKocbach, Jan Martin
dc.contributor.authorNoordhof, Dionne Adriana
dc.contributor.authorKjøsen Talsnes, Rune
dc.contributor.authorEttema, Gertjan
dc.contributor.authorSandbakk, Øyvind Bucher
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-27T08:18:20Z
dc.date.available2023-06-27T08:18:20Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-23
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the influence of tactical positioning on performance in the heats of sprint cross-country (XC) skiing among men and women and the consistency of overtaking events over repeated competitions on the same racecourse. Thirty male and thirty female elite to world-class level skiers within each competition [(sprint International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) points: 40 ± 21 vs. 35 ± 24)] performed two repeated world-cup competitions at four different venues (two in the classical and two in the skating style) between 2017 and 2020. The intermediate rankings at five checkpoints were analysed using television broadcasts of the competitions. Sprint time-trial (STT) rank correlated positively with the final rank for the seven men’s (ρ = .54-.82, P < .01) and the eight women’s (ρ = .40-.80, P < .05) competitions, while one of the classical competitions for males did not correlate significantly (P = .23). The strength of the correlation coefficients between intermediate ranks and final ranks during the heats increased gradually from the first to the last checkpoint among both sexes in the classical style (τ = ~0.26 to ~0.70) and in the skating style (τ = ~0.22 to ~0.82), in which the majority of performance-variance was decided before the start of the finish sprint. For both sexes, ~20 and 16 overtaking events were observed in each heat for the classical and skating style, respectively. There was a significant sex-difference in the number of overtaking events in one out of the 16 competitions (P < .01), but no differences across seasons for any competition (P = .051–796). Overall, this study showed the importance of tactical positioning for performance in sprint XC skiing, with the number of overtaking events being relatively consistent for competitions performed on the same racecourse.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHaugnes P, Kocbach J, Noordhof D. A., Kjøsen Talsnes RK, Ettema GJC, Sandbakk Ø. The influence of tactical positioning on performance in sprint cross-country skiing. PLOS ONE. 2023en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2157605
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287717
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29513
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalPLOS ONE
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleThe influence of tactical positioning on performance in sprint cross-country skiingen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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