Sentence examples for sprint athlete from inspiring English sources

"He's looking at how I can continue to progress from an endurance athlete to a sprint athlete.

ParalympicsGB sprint athlete Bethany Woodward, 19, is grinning from ear-to-ear as her red and blue hairband-style braid is given a final squirt of hairspray.

For example, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in ACTN3, a gene encoding for a protein found in fast-twitch muscle fibres, is associated with elite sprint athlete status [22].

Pablo McNeil, a former Olympic sprint athlete, and Dwayne Jarrett coached Bolt, encouraging him to focus his energy on improving his athletic abilities.

However, the homozygous genotype appears with very low frequency in elite sprint athlete [ 25].

The ACTN3 study looked at 429 elite white athletes, including 50 Olympians, and found that 50percentt of the 107 sprint athletes had two copies of the R variant.

They found that both male and female elite sprint athletes have significantly higher frequencies of the 577R allele compared to controls.

It is sprint athletes, football players and gymnasts that are most often affected, due to the range of movements they perform and sudden changes in direction required.

Magkos et al.[21] studied the type and intensity of exercise and the effects on bone mineral density; they reported that sprint athletes have significantly greater bone mineral density, and endurance swimmers have significantly lower bone mineral density than other athletes.

Others indicate that the flat foot exerts effects on velocity, stamina and/or balance [15], [16] while those possessing the high-arched foot are unsuitable sprint athletes [17].

The aerobic metabolism provides a higher contribution to this energy demand in endurance athlete than in sprint athletes [ 99].