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- Title
Análisis del rendimiento de las pruebas de natación en los JJOO «Rio2016.
- Authors
María González-Ravé, Jose; Yustres Amores, Inmaculada; Juárez Santos-Garcia, Daniel
- Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze the results of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio 2016, taking as variables of the study the country, events, date of birth, gender of the participant, taking into account the data corresponding to the finalist of events. The sample of this study corresponds to the medalists (positions 1-3) and finalists (positions 4-8) with 240 entries in the database. To analyze possible differences in terms of age in terms of swimming styles, an Anova of one factor was performed. A T-test for independent samples was used to analyze differences in age according to gender. The results showed that in all events the mean age is similar, being slightly lower for the tests of 200 and 400 m individual events, and somewhat higher backstroke, no significant differences were found between different events. In addition, No significant differences were found between events mean age of swimmers (considering the year of birth) between men and women, in all cases the mean age is lower in men.
- Subjects
SWIMMING competitions; OLYMPIC athletes; OLYMPIC Games (31st : 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); SWIMMERS; PERFORMANCE; ATHLETIC ability
- Publication
Retos: Nuevas Perspectivas de Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación, 2017, Vol 32, p256
- ISSN
1579-1726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47197/retos.v0i32.56460