Characteristics of shooting time of the world’s top level male archery athletes

摘要

The purpose of this study was to clarify the characteristic features of the shooting time of the world’s top-level male archery athletes. The matches used for this study were those from the 1/64th Elimination Round to the Finals in the Men’s Individual of the 44th World Outdoor Target Archery Championships. As representative of the world’s top athletes, the medalists from these competitions were studied; the mean time and the coefficient of variation of the mean for each phase of shooting were calculated, and compared to those of all the athletes who competed in matches from the 1/64th Elimination Round to the Finals. The results of the study showed for the different phases of shooting, the preparatory phase had the longest mean time regardless of the resulting scores (p＜0.05); the mean’s coefficient of variation was also large for this phase (p＜0.05). The mean time taken by the medalists for the preparatory phase was shorter than the mean time taken by the competing athletes for the same phase (p＜0.01). These results suggest that the characteristic feature of shooting time of the world’s top-level male archery athletes was a shorter duration of the preparatory phase.