Competitive/ technical progress forecasting in ski jumping sport

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Postgraduate I.A. Avvakumova1
PhD, Associate Professor T.V. Fendel1
PhD, Associate Professor S.A. Gorbunov1
1Tchaikovsky State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports, Tchaikovsky

Objective of the study was to analyze the key training elements critical for competitive/ technical progress in modern ski jumping sport.
Methods and structure of the study. We analyzed for the study purposes statistics of the 2017-2018/ 2018-2019/ 2019-2020 World Ski Jumping Cup Women’s events to find, using the Spearman's rank correlation test, correlations between the style score (competitive/ technical result) and distance score within the landing zone or construction point (K-point) on the hill size line.
Results and conclusion. The national ski jumping training service should give a higher priority to quality and safety of the landing techniques and styles within and behind the K-point on the hill size line. Our study found a strong direct statistical correlation (r=0.78) between the competitive style score and distance score within and behind the K-point on the hill size. The national ski jumping team leaders need to achieve and stabilize the 90% and 95% hill size jumps to enter the top-10 and top-3 (respectively) in the World Cup standard hill events. In the Large Hill World Cup events, the top-3 and top-10 distance score averages should vary at around 95% and 92% the hill size, respectively. The high-distance landings are particularly demanding to the individual musculoskeletal system fitness, and athletes should be well trained for such large hill jumps with a special focus on the high in-run speeds.

Keywords: ski jumping sport, hill size line, standard hill, large hill, jump distance.

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