Predictor variables for a 100-km race time in male ultra-marathoners

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 681-693

  Knechtle, Beat ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^b   Lepers, Romuald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Gesundheitszentrum   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENDURANCE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUNNING; SWITZERLAND; TIME;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RUNNING; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952502017     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/05.25.PMS.111.6.681-693     Document Type: Article

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