Sports equipment design impact on athlete performance - The PR1 Paralympic women's indoor rowing world record
This paper presents findings from evaluating different designs by testing with a world-class Paralympic athlete during the development of high-performance Paralympic sports equipment. Seat designs for the paralympic rowing PR1 class developed through a new process focusing on maximizing movements and supporting impairments were tested by a world-class athlete on an indoor rowing ergometer and used in the 2021 indoor world rowing championship. Results show that the most performant design increased the individual athlete`s power output by 47.6%, enabling the athlete to set a new world record with a margin of 13 seconds.
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| Notations: | sports for the handicapped sports facilities and sports equipment technical and natural sciences |
| Tagging: | Sitzposition |
| Published in: | ISEA Engineering of Sport 14 Conference |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana
2022
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| Online Access: | https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=resec-isea |
| Pages: | 1-2 |
| Document types: | research paper |
| Level: | advanced |