Studia Kinanthropologica

Studia Kinanthropologica 2021, 22(2):115-122 | DOI: 10.32725/sk.2021.009

The relationship between individual disciplines and sports performance in triathlon

L. Odráška¹, H. Krč², K. Filipová³

¹ Trnavská Univerzita v Trnave, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra školskej pedagogiky

² Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Lekárska fakulta, Ústav telesnej výchovy a športu

³ Stredná športová škola, Nitra

The aim of the work was to find out what is the relationship between individual disciplines and the overall performance in triathlon. For the analysis, we used the results of three top events for each variant of triathlon for the years 2019 to 2021. The analyzed consisted of athletes in the elite category. We analyzed the sprint triathlon, the Olympic triathlon, the long triathlon and the off-road triathlon. We used Spearman's correlation coefficient to verify the relationships between the individual variables.

Results: For all monitored triathlons, we observed statistically significant relationships (p < 0,05) for running, with the most significant contribution to the overall result in Olympic (R = 0,907; 0,840; 0,964) and long men's triathlon (R = 0,832; 0,772; 0,878). For cycling, we observed statistically significant relationships (p < 0,01) in all but one of the triathlons monitored, with cycling most significantly contributing to the overall result in the off-road triathlon of men (R = 0,932; 0,896; 0,961), women (R = 0,946; 0,826; 0,875) and in women's long triathlon (R = 0,879; 0,706; 0,864). For the men’s sprint triathlon, we observed the most significant correlations twice for running (R = 0,965; 0,849) and once for cycling (R = 0,873). Women in the sprint, similarly to men, were dominated twice by running (R = 0,885; 0,820) and once by cycling (R = 0.895). For the women's Olympic Triathlon, we recorded the strongest correlation for running (R = 0,827; 0,828) and once for cycling (R = 0,907).

Keywords: triathlon; performance; analysis

Received: October 20, 2021; Revised: November 29, 2021; Accepted: December 2, 2021; Published: February 15, 2022  Show citation