EVOLUTION OF PARAMETERS ANTHROPOMETRICAL AND CINEMATIC IN SWIMMING YOUNG MEN: LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Tella, V¹.; Llana, S¹.; Madera, J¹; and Navarro, F.².

¹University of Valencia (Spain), ² University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).

Swimming kinematics parameters have been widely applied to measure swimming skill in training and competitive situations. The descriptive study aim was to analyse the evolution of the swimming kinematics parameters related to anthropometrical data in the age-group. The data was obtained during the Winter National Age-Group (1994) and Junior (1996) Championships organized by the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation. Only those participanting in both championships were analysed in this study. The obtained results allow to conclude that the evolution observed in the kinematics variables and antropometrical variables in young swimmers shows the improvement in the speed depends SL resulting in part from the increase in anthropometrical variables.