This study made a comparative analysis of the winning points in different sporting events of decathletes and positively identified how the preceding items experienced by them influenced competitive performance. The results are to be used as basic data...
This study made a comparative analysis of the winning points in different sporting events of decathletes and positively identified how the preceding items experienced by them influenced competitive performance. The results are to be used as basic data for the selection of decathletes and improvement of their competitive performance. For the study, performance of 29 players who won 5500 points in total were sampled from athletic sports records from 1999 to 2002 published by the Korea Athletics Federation. After that, the following results were obtained through averaging, correlation analysis, multi-regression analysis and covariance analysis.
1) It was demonstrated that for Korean decathletes, competitive performance in Short put is relatively stronger compared with that of jumping and throwing, but that of throwing is relatively very low.
2) It was demonstrated that an individual item that has the greatest influence on performance was discus Throw and weight do not influence performance.
3) Items that have a significant difference of performance according to preceding athletic items performance were 110mH, long jump, pole vault and discus Throw. For 110mH, long jump, and pole vault, a good record was found when a preceding item was jump. For throwing, the best record was found in discus Throw.