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Strategic target setting in the heptathlon

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Dinnie, Alf
O'Donoghue, Peter
Date
2020-02-28
Acceptance date
2020-02-28
Type
Article
Publisher
IOS Press
ISSN
2215-0218
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine scoring within the women’s Heptathlon to identify areas of performance where athletes could most improve their points total and propose an approach to target setting. Performance data were gathered from publically available sources for 409 performances of 155 heptathletes at 19 international championships between 2004 and 2017 inclusive. Based upon the interquartile ranges, the largest spread of points were seen for the High Jump and Javelin. Year to year improvement was analysed using the 186 pairs of performances by the same athletes in consecutive calendar years. This showed that the disciplines with the most scope for improvements were the Long Jump, High Jump and Javelin. The proposed target setting approach can be used to identify which disciplines an athlete should focus on to maximise improvement in their total points and to estimate the probability of the athlete exceeding the target that has been set. The approach should be used in conjunction with knowledge of the wider context of the athlete’s recent heptathlon performances.
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Journal of Sports Analytics;
Citation
Dinnie, A. and O’Donoghue, P. (2020) 'Strategic target setting in the heptathlon', Journal of Sports Analytics, pp.1-17. DOI: 10.3233/JSA-200351.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10369/11045
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/JSA-200351
Description
Article published in Journal of Sports Analytics on 28 February 2020, available open access at: https://doi.org/10.3233/JSA-200351.
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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