Successful Stories of Top Paralympic Swimmers from Their First Encounter with Swimming

The influence of swimming start components for selected olympic and paralympic swimmers.

This study compared the components of the 15-m swimming start for 20 international male Olympic and Paralympic swimmers. The time, distance, and velocity components for freestyle swimming were measured. There were significantly (p < .05) different absolute and relative swim start measures among the swimming groups. Using stepwise regression three variables significantly influenced the start to ...

Imbalanced nutrition of top-level swimmers.

The aim of the present study was to monitor the nutritional status of 9 Greek national top-level swimmers during a competitive season of eight months. The swimmers were assessed through recording of food and supplement intake, blood sampling, and anthropometry at four landmarks: in the beginning of the season (baseline), after completing a phase of intensive and voluminous training (at 10 weeks...

Women’s stories of planned Caesarean birth in their first pregnancy

summary of the subject of the narrative Orientation – time, place, situation, participants Complicating action – what actually happened Evaluation – the meaning and significance of the action Resolution – what finally happened Coda – returns the perspective to the present Labov and Walenzky (1967 in Elliott, 2007). In many cases, researchers have used the whole of this framework to categorise s...

The Effects of Visual Impairment on Competition Swim Performance

Several factors contribute to successful swim performance, but how are they affected by impaired vision? The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between degree of visual impairment and performance variables during the 100m freestyle and backstroke events in Paralympic swimmers and to compare the performances with those of Olympic swimmers. A competition video analysis conducte...

Salivary Parameters of Competitive Swimmers at Gas-Chlorinated Swimming-Pools.