A comparison of anthropometry between ironman triathletes and ultra-swimmers

Journal of Human Kinetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-63

  Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Baumann, Barbara ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Wirth, Andrea ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^b  

^a Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

body fat; body height; body mass; skin fold thickness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953973697     PISSN: 16405544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10078-010-0020-7     Document Type: Article

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