from 01.01.1997 until now
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
The author of this work compared the anthropometric data of the leading long-distance walkers and marathon runners of the world, taking into account their similar high energy consumption and different movement techniques, with the aim of more effective selection of athletes at the stage of choosing a specialization. The comparison was carried out for the entire period of athletics competitions at the Olympic Games from 1896 to 2021. The study revealed significantly greater growth and weight indicators of 50 km walkers compared to 42.6195 km runners at the same age and BMI values and a general downward trend in weight indicators and BMI over the past 50 years
marathon run, race walking, olympic games, men, age and height-weight data, bmi
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