Race Pattern of Women’s 100-m Hurdles: Time Analysis of Olympic Hurdle Performance

Abstract

Background: For control and effective management of training process in women’s 100-m hurdles event, the coaches, in addition to detailed biomechanical parameters, need also overall, more comprehensive technical parameters, called direct performance descriptors which are used for planning the distribution of an athlete’s efforts over the race. Purpose: The aim of this study was the investigation of the race behavior of elite women sprint hurdlers, on the basis of selected time parameters, and the examination of the existence of a common race pattern in high level hurdle performance. Method: The time data of the race performance between two consecutive Olympic Games were compared. The analyzing subjects consisted of all women 100-m hurdle finalists in Athens 2004 (n = 6) and all women 100-m hurdle finalists (n = 8) and semi-finalists (n = 14) in Beijing 2008. Results: No significant differences were revealed between the two competitions concerning to the means of approach run time, run-in time, intermediate touchdown times, interval times for the hurdle units and the corresponding average velocities. Significant relationship exists between the intermediate times and final performance. The time contribution of the first half of the race to the formation of the final performance is approximately equal to the second one and, generally the standardised time parameters show the existence of a common race pattern in high level hurdle performance. Conclusion: The presented biomechanical data provide coaches and athletes with valuable information about hurdle technique for effective interventions in the training process.

A performance analysis about running sequence on male and female 60m hurdles

“…Additionally, Hurdle clearance plays an imperative role for good performance (2) .The correlations between all variables were positive significant (p<0.01) difference each other. Compared to the previous study (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) ,correlations of the approach run phase, hurdle unit phase, run-in phase were greater in the present study.…”

“…The results indicated that men had significant difference (p-value < 0.01) less time in Run-in than women. The results of current studies highly supported with previous https://www.indjst.org/ studies (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17) .Hurdler clearance results revealed that women had Mean/SD (0.28±0.02) significant difference (p-value < 0.01) cross hurdle in less time than men (M/SD=0.35±0.03). Additionally, Hurdle clearance plays an imperative role for good performance (2) .The correlations between all variables were positive significant (p<0.01) difference each other.…”

“…Hence, the researcher was not finding out a significant relationship among race performance and reaction time. This study also find out the correlation among intermediate times and final performance (16) .…”

“…In the research of (14) the analysis was done on hurdle split times regarding hurdle races in 110m and 100m (H). In 2011 (15) also done analysis of the hurdle races of 110m and 100m, and they also split times in which from touchdown to touchdown behind hurdle using video records of panned cameras (16,17) . (Inthis research also examination hurdle split times in 60m hurdle races with the aid of video recordings.)…”

Spatiotemporal Comparisons Between Elite and High-Level 60 m Hurdlers

“…The most common analysis of the hurdle’s races has been carried out through an evaluation of the hurdle split times (from touchdown to touchdown behind the hurdle), using video recordings with a fixed or panned video-camera both in 110 and 100 m (Muller and Hommel, 1997; Graubner and Nixdorf, 2011; Tsiokanos et al, 2017; Pollitt et al, 2018a,b) as of 60 m hurdles (Walker et al, 2019a,b). López del Amo et al (2018) found that the reaction time and the approach run time were predictors of race performance, however, Tsiokanos et al (2017) did not observed a significant relationship between reaction time and the race performance. Similarly, Tsiokanos et al (2017) determined that the correlation between the intermediate times and final performance was decisive from the fifth hurdle onwards in the 110 m hurdles event ( r = 0.77 – 0.98).…”