What is associated with race performance in male 100-km ultra-marathoners anthropometry, training or marathon best time?

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 571-577

  Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^b   Senn, Oliver ^b  

^a Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Athlete; Body fat; Endurance; Skinfolds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BICYCLE; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SWIMMING;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BICYCLING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RUNNING; SWIMMING;

EID: 79952711858     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2010.541272     Document Type: Article

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