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Anatomical, biomechanical and physiological loading during human endurance performance at selected limb cadences via triathlon

Triathlon has had a rapid evolution from its origins 25 years ago in the United States to becoming a full summer Olympic sport in Sydney 2000. It is a sport that combines the three disciplines of swimming, cycling and running linked together with two transitions. It is this combination of events that gives triathlon its uniqueness in the area of exercise science. As a very young sport, the body of knowledge is somewhat limited, but is steadily growing. The following document aims to shed some new light on a range of aspects within the sport of triathlon and highlight triathlon as a sport in its own right with very specific demands when compared with each of the three individual sub-disciplines

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/221082
Date January 2002
CreatorsLanders, Grant Justin
PublisherUniversity of Western Australia. School of Human Movement and Exercise Science
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright Grant Justin Landers, http://www.itpo.uwa.edu.au/UWA-Computer-And-Software-Use-Regulations.html

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