Dynamics results of highly qualified sprinters with visual impairments

Abstract

Competitive activity is an integral part of the training of athletes and serves as one of the factors for achieving high sports results. Today, competitive activity of Paralympic athletes is practically no different from Olympic athletes. The main difference between the Paralympic competitions is the presence of the distribution of athletes into groups according to different nosology’s for participation in competition. The generalization of literary sources indicates the existence of individual studies devoted to the results of visually impaired people in various sports. In most scientific works, the authors studied the relationship between competitive results and the effectiveness of the classification system for visually impaired athletes in various sports. The purpose of the article was to study the dynamics of the results a highly qualified sprinter with visual impairments in the annual macrocycle. The results were obtained based on the analysis of individual diaries, training plans and competition protocols. The structure of the annual training of a sprinter with visual impairments was a typical two-cycle scheme, in which the winter championship of Ukraine and the World championship were the main competitions of the macro cycle. It was found that most competitions occurred during the summer competitive period. The dynamics of the athlete`s results indicate a wave-like change in her results in running at distances of 60 m, 100 m and 400 m. The results of the research made it possible to identify individual parameters of competitive practice of visually impaired sprinter in the annual macrocycle, which, in turn, influenced the timely achievement of sports form and its maintenance throughout the competitive periods.