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Sprint performance of male track athletes at Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2016

Advances in Rehabilitation

Volume 35 (2021): Issue 1 (March 2021)

By: Andrzej Kosmol , Grzegorz Bednarczuk , Bartosz Molik and Mariusz Buszta

Open Access

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Figures & Tables

The ratio of world records (WRs) set by Paralympic athletes to WRs set by Olympic athletes in 100–400 m runs

Differences in performance of winners and finalists as well as PG/OG performance ratio in sport classes in sprints

Sport classes	100% 1992 PG				PG/OG performance ratio

	1^st place		1^st−8^th places		1^st place			1^st −8^th places

	2004	2016	2004	2016	1992	2004	2016	1992	2004	2016
	100 m

T13	2.92	5.92	4.04	6.40	0.88	0.90	0.92	0.86	0.88	0.91
T38	5.96	11.17	7.43	11.44	0.82	0.87	0.91	0.79	0.84	0.88
T42	–2.29	–0.25	10.52	19.55	0.81	0.79	0.80	0.65	0.71	0.79
T44	4.73	7.05	8.51	13.13	0.86	0.89	0.91	0.79	0.85	0.89
T46/47	–2.61	1.40	3.04	5.26	0.93	0.90	0.93	0.87	0.88	0.91
T54	3.27	5.25	3.59	5.56	0.68	0.69	0.71	0.67	0.68	0.69
OA	1.10	1.51	1.70	1.57	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

	200 m

T13	1.56	3.60	2.62	5.58	0.88	0.87	0.89	0.87	0.87	0.90
T38	5.21		7.40		0.84	0.86		0.81	0.85
T42	–5.48	5.76	15.15	22.29	0.82	0.76	0.85	0.64	0.74	0.81
T44	4.77	8.71	12.92	17.80	0.88	0.90	0.94	0.78	0.87	0.92
T46/47	–2.66		2.26		0.93	0.88		0.88	0.88
T54	3.96				0.78	0.78		0.75	0.78
OA	2.89	2.94	2.26	2.33	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

	400 m

T13	–0.04	5.25	0.86	11.97	0.87	0.88	0.91	0.80	0.81	0.90
T38	6.76	10.30	8.58	10.13	0.79	0.86	0.87	0.76	0.84	0.84
T44	12.93	21.50	12.60	20.68	0.74	0.86	0.93	0.72	0.83	0.90
T46/47	2.65	1.99	2.94	5.97	0.87	0.91	0.88	0.85	0.88	0.89
T54	4.83	6.44	6.31	8.35	0.87	0.93	0.92	0.86	0.92	0.93
OA	–1.15	1.08	–0.44	0.96	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Competition density in sprint events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 1992, 2004 and 2016 (in %)

Event	Games	Sport classes

		T13	T38	T42	T44	T46/47	T54	OA
100 m	1992	9.76	5.6	1.49	4.42	5.97	10.81	26.67
	2004	17.07	8.08	1.48	5.33	9.37	9.2	28
	2016	9.46	6.48	13.56	15.38	11.43	9.88	32

200 m	1992	3.7	3.48	0.43	1.42	3.04	3.77	10.29
	2004	5.38	5.23	3.41	4.21	6.06	6.78	8.24
	2016	10.87		2.43	2.72			12.31

400 m	1992	0.31	1.05		0.94	1.48	1.83	4.76
	2004	0.3	1.62		1.85	1.58	4.12	5.16
	2016	2.18	1.43		0.76	4.69	7.69	5.06

Prediction of performance in men’s sprints at 2021 PG in selected sport classes – potential winners and finalists

Class	2016 PG 1^st place	2016 PG avr_final	Prediction	–95.0%CI	+95.0%CI	R²	F(1, 5)	p
	100 m

T13	10.64	10.96	10.81	10.68	10.94	0.67	88.56	0.0000
T38	10.74	11.29	10.90	10.66	11.14	0.71	105.10	0.0000
T42	12.26	12.55	11.78	11.12	12.43	0.57	57.10	0.0000
T44	10.81	11.11	10.69	10.42	10.96	0.71	115.12	0.0000
T46/47	10.57	10.98	11.06	10.88	11.23	0.29	17.79	0.0001
T54	13.90	14.31	14.12	13.94	14.29	0.56	50.56	0.0000
OA	9.81	9.94	9.83	9.75	9.90	0.49	41.91	0.0000

			200 m

T13	22.23	22.48	21.79	21.46	22.13	0.64	73.34	0.0000
T38			21.52	20.93	22.11	0.74	105.04	0.0000
T42	23.39	24.98	23.39	21.99	24.78	0.69	72.40	0.0000
T44	21.06	21.85	21.25	20.43	22.08	0.62	74.77	0.0000
T46/47			22.08	21.65	22.51	0.32	18.01	0.0001
T54			23.79	22.98	24.59	0.65	45.51	0.0000
OA	19.78	20.13	20.02	19.86	20.18	0.25	14.16	0.0005

			400 m

T13	47.15	48.84	48.64	47.62	49.66	0.46	36.47	0.0000
T38	49.46	52.49	51.56	49.49	53.63	0.27	15.31	0.0003
T42
T44	46.20	49.78	49.57	47.30	51.84	0.33	20.03	0.0001
T46/47	48.79	49.22	48.81	46.75	50.87	0.22	11.59	0.0015
T54	46.65	47.25	46.23	45.43	47.04	0.60	57.91	0.0000
OA	43.03	44.04	44.57	44.31	44.84	0.03	1.51	0.2259

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/areh.2020.101481 | Journal eISSN: 1734-4948

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Language: English

Page range: 39 - 46

Submitted on: Sep 18, 2020

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Accepted on: Nov 3, 2020

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Published on: Dec 12, 2020

Published by: University of Physical Education in Warsaw

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

classification,

performance trends

Related subjects:

Clinical medicine,

Physical and rehabilitation medicine,

Sports and recreation,

Sports and recreation, other

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