The Russians Are the Fastest in Marathon Cross-Country Skiing: The "Engadin Ski Marathon"

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11510%2F17%3A10365116" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11510/17:10365116 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9821757" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9821757</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9821757" target="_blank" >10.1155/2017/9821757</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Russians Are the Fastest in Marathon Cross-Country Skiing: The "Engadin Ski Marathon"

Original language description

It is well known that athletes from a specific region or country are dominating certain sports disciplines such as marathon running or Ironman triathlon; however, little relevant information exists on cross-country skiing. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the aspect of region and nationality in one of the largest cross-country skiing marathons in Europe, the &quot;Engadin Ski Marathon.&quot; All athletes (n - 197,125) who finished the &quot;Engadin Ski Marathon&quot; between 1998 and 2016 were considered. More than two-thirds of the finishers (72.5% in women and 69.6% in men) were Swiss skiers, followed by German, Italian, and French athletes in both sexes. Most of the Swiss finishers were from Canton of Zurich (20.5%), Grisons (19.2%), and Berne (10.3%). Regarding performance, the Russians were the fastest and the British the slowest. Considering local athletes, finishers from Canton of Uri and Glarus were the fastest and those from Canton of Geneva and Basel the slowest. Based on the findings of the present study, it was concluded that local athletes were not the fastest in the &quot;Engadin Ski Marathon.&quot; Future studies need to investigate other cross-country skiing races in order to find the nationalities and regions of the fastest cross-country skiers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BioMed Research International

ISSN

2314-6133

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

1-7

UT code for WoS article

000408064000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029173313