Search Results - "Triathlon"
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Developing Future Champions: Sport-Specific Motor Skill Performance in Youth Triathlon
Published 2024“…This thesis aimed to explore the important motor skills for triathlon performance, create a measurement tool that could be used in the field, and measure the performance of an important motor skill over time to describe how changes in performance occur.…”
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Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations
Published 2012“…A sample of 423 elite athletes (179 males, 244 females) aged between 14 and 66 years (M = 25.64; SD = 8.57) from a variety of team (e.g., rowing, hockey, baseball, rugby) and individual sports (e.g., cycling, athletics, triathlon, gymnastics) completed a multisection questionnaire including measures of sport perfectionism, motivation regulation, achievement goals, and fear of failure. …”
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RFID marathon timing system
Published 2012“…This system is developed by using Rapid Application Development methodology.First is compare and analyzes the RFID Marathon Timing System and the conventional timing system by compare the functions and operation.Next is design the structure and flow of RFID Marathon Timing System.RFID Marathon Timing System is analyzing in detail by its features and operations.Next is the development phase,RFID Marathon Timing System is developed and tested.Results of this RFID Marathon Timing System are it able to capture the timing of each participant and able to display result of each participant when they crossing the finish line.Furthermore,the result also showed that this RFID Marathon Timing System could be used as an alternative timing system for bicycle racing,triathlon and so on.…”
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Exploring the perceived effectiveness of a life skills development program for high-performance athletes
Published 2015“…Six focus groups were conducted with 54 high-performance athletes from six sports: squash, softball, baseball, netball, triathlon, and surfing. Three focus groups were conducted with parents (n = 8) of athletes and a further eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with coaches (n = 4) and lead facilitators (n = 4) of the life-skills programme. …”
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The genetics of endurance: Frequency of the ACTN3 R577X variant in Ironman World Championship athletes
Published 2013“…Methods: Saliva samples, questionnaires, and performance times were collected for 196 elite endurance athletes who participated in the 2008 Kona Ironman championship triathlon. Athletes were of predominantly North American, European, and Australian origin. …”
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Sport as a tourism attraction in Malaysia: potential and prospects
Published 2015“…Currently, Malaysia is known for organizing several world-class sport events, among them the Royal Langkawi International Regatta (January), Ironman Triathlon (February), Formula 1 Grand Prix Malaysia (March), FEI Showjumping World Cup (May), Petronas Primax 3 Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race (July), Super GT (August), Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix (September), A1GP Malaysia (November) and Monsoon Cup (December). …”
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Evaluation of a 7-gene genetic profile for athletic endurance phenotype in ironman championship triathletes
Published 2015“…To investigate this model's utility for elite triathletes, we genotyped seven polymorphisms previously associated with an endurance polygenic profile (ACE Ins/Del, ACTN3 Arg577Ter, AMPD1 Gln12Ter, CKMM 1170bp/985+185bp, HFEHis63Asp, GDF8 Lys153Arg and PPARGC1A Gly482Ser) in a cohort of 196 elite athletes who participated in the 2008 Kona Ironman championship triathlon. Mean performance time (PT) was not significantly different in individual marker analysis. …”
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Running and knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2017“…Eligible studies were those in which running or running-related sports (eg, triathlon or orienteering) were assessed as a risk factor for the onset or progression of knee OA in adults. …”
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An investigation of positive and negative perfectionism
Published 2005“…In Study 3, positive perfectionism was found to relate to faster performance time in athletes competing in triathlons, and negative perfectionism was not found to impede sporting performance.The Big Five personality domains were investigated in Study 4, and Agreeableness was found to be a significant predictor of negative perfectionism in the clinical group. …”
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Pelancongan Langkawi 1987-2010: Pencapaian dan cabaran masa depan
Published 2011“…Accommodation and service sector constantly receive additional injection due to the incoming pool of investor who then places their capital in tourism development of Langkawi.Moreover aggressive promotion by government, and as venue to hold several hallmark exhibitions and sporting events such LIM (Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition), The Royal Langkawi International Regatta, The Ironman Langkawi International Triathlon, and Le Tour de Langkawi, boost its image as well known world tourism destination in par with Phuket (Thailand) and Bali (Indonesia).As an attractive effort, Langkawi has been accorded as Geopark by UNESCO in 2007 because it possesses variety of outstanding geological rock formations which can be located at 'The Machincang Cambrian Geoforest Park', 'Kilim Karst Geoforest Park' and 'Dayang Bunting Geoforest Park'.Therefore, this paperwork intent to discuss several matters of the tourism achievement in Langkawi comprises of its development background, policy and programme that has been posed by the government in tourism sector, tourist characteristics, tourist activities, current land use and tourism evolution. …”
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