The use of neural network technology to model swimming performance

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-125

  Silva, António José ^a,b   Costa, Aldo Manuel ^a   Oliveira, Paulo Moura ^a,b   Reis, Victor Machado ^a   Saavedra, José ^c   Perl, Jurgen ^d   Rouboa, Abel ^a,b   Marinho, Daniel Almeida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age group swimmers; Evaluation; Front crawl; Individual medley

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947240734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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