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Sebastian Fischer currently works at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science, (IfSS), Kassel, Germany.
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May 2006 - present
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The aim of this study was to examine the importance of the change-over time in swimming relay races. Top-class international 4 x 100 m freestyle races were analysed across a 10-year period including three Olympic Games and five European and World Championships. A total of 220 swimmers (116 female, 104 male) were included in this study with an avera...
Elite swimmers are individual athletes competing mostly on their own. However, when competing in a relay team, they are exposed to social influences possibly leading to effort gains compared to their individual performance. This study investigated effort gains in relay team members during 4 x 100 m freestyle races of Olympic Games and World Champio...
There is a great heterogeneity in the starting techniques used by international-level swimmers in relay events. The aim of the present study was to analyse and compare the two most commonly used relay start techniques by male and female competitive swimmers. Thirteen males and seven females national and international level swimmers performed severa...
Der Start stellt für die Sprintdisziplinen im Schwimmen einen leistungsentscheidenden Wettkampfabschnitt dar. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden zunächst in einem Literaturüberblick die wichtigsten Bewegungsmerkmale des Startsprungs sowie der nachfolgenden Flug- und Eintauchphase herausgearbeitet1. Daran schließt sich die Darstellung eines Messsyst...
Members of swimming relays often show effort gains in relays (i.e., more effort and faster swimming times in the relay versus the individual competition). The weakest relay members typically exhibit the most pronounced effort gains. However, the underlying psychological processes are unclear. Prior research suggests social comparisons with stronger...
The purpose of this study was to test whether swimmers become further motivated by swimming in a relay team compared to swimming on their own, which results in increased performance. Particularly, we assume that this increased motivation results in a performance that even exceeds their best performance achieved in individual competitions (their per...
The present study aimed to detect statistical differences in the start performance between relay and individual races accounting for gender and relay start techniques. Race data of relay races and corresponding individual races from European Championships (2019) were analysed. Linear mixed models for repeated measures were applied to compare the di...
Members of sports teams often differ in their individual performance capabilities. While numerous laboratory studies have shown that especially less capable members exhibit larger effort gains in teams as compared to their individual performance, related findings in relay swimming remained ambiguous. Thus, this research aims to clarify whether rela...
Interpreting other's actions is a very important ability not only in social life, but also in interactive sports. Previous experiments have demonstrated good estimation performances for the weight of lifted objects through point-light displays. The basis for these performances is commonly assigned to the concept of motor simulation regarding observ...
Short change-over times (COT) in swimming relays can play an important role in winning a race. Therefore, experts recommend to specifically train change-overs between swimmers to minimize COT (Maglischo, 2003; Siders, 2010; Saavedra et al., 2014). But, change-overs in swimming constitute a quite risky situation, since a false start and hence a disq...
Swimming a relay is different from swimming in an individual race. The most visible difference can be found in the starting behavior from the block. For the individual start, swimmers initiate, at rest, their take-off movement as soon as a starting signal appears. For relay starts, swimmers may initiate their take-off behavior any time they wish. H...
Swimming a relay is different from swimming in an individual race. The most visible difference can be found in the starting behavior from the block. For the individual start, swimmers initiate, at rest, their take-off movement as soon as a starting signal appears. For relay starts, swimmers may initiate their take-off behavior any time they wish. H...
Swimming a relay is different from swimming in an individual race. The most visible difference can be found in the starting behavior from the block. For the individual start, swimmers initiate, at rest, their take-off movement as soon as a starting signal appears. For relay starts, swimmers may initiate their take-off behavior any time they wish. H...
This conference book includes contemporary reports and corresponding studies on swim starts conducted by young scientists from around the world. The various topics relate to individual starts from the block, backstroke starts, and relay starts, highlighting different aspects and phases of the corresponding movement behavior. Most of the reports pub...
In the past, studies and book recommendations on relay starts in swimming have been predominantly focused on the change-over time (COT) as a performance criterion. Aside from the circular backswing start with parallel foot placement, few studies have analysed differences in the take-off movement including step approaches as well. Although trends co...
The aim of this study was to analyse the significance of various biomechanical parameters in swim start performance for the grab and track start techniques. To do so, structural equation models were analysed, incorporating measurements for the take-off phase, flight phase and entry phase. Forty-six elite German swimmers (18 female and 28 male; age:...
Systematic variations of the preferred stance positions of 17 elite swimmers on the
OSB11 were analyzed in regard to block time, swim start times to 5 m, horizontal take-off
velocities, and horizontal vs. vertical peak force values. The variations encompassed
changes of the front leg (left vs. right), the centre of mass (CM) height (low vs. high),...
The aim of this study was to evaluate systematic variations of the preferred stance of elite swimmers in relation to their swim start performance on the OSB11. Variations of the preferred stance were examined regarding the front leg (left vs. right), the centre of mass height (low vs. high), the stance width (narrow vs. wide), and a rear vs. a fron...
Der Startabschnitt im Schwimmen stellt insbesondere in den Sprintwettbewerben über 50m und 100m eine leistungsdeterminierende Größe dar. Gerade in den letzten Jahren ist das Aufkommen von neuen Starttechniken, die zu einer Optimierung der Startleistung führen sollen, zu beobachten. Ziel der Dissertation ist es, anhand einer kinematischen und dynami...
Starting block performance in swimming is of crucial importance in the individual competitions for the shorter swimming distances as well as for the relay events. The significance of this swim start performance will increase with the introduction of a new starting block with a longer and slightly steeper surface in conjunction with a push-off suppo...
Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie den vielfältigen konditionell-koordinativen Anforderungen in einem Wettkampfsport durch angemessene Trainingsübungen begegnet werden kann. Angemessen bedeutet dabei, dass sowohl den spezifischen Ausführungsbedingungen für die diversen Bewegungsabläufe (Spezifitätsprinzip) – und hier insbes...
