ATHLETES

University of Technology. First, I would like to thank Dr. Harri Sievänen and Professor Jari Hyttinen to give me this fantastic opportunity to conduct a biomechanical research project as my MSc thesis. I was very grateful to be involved in the research where I can combine and apply sports science background from my bachelor’s degree and biomedical engineering from this Master’s programme. Special thanks are due to Dr. Harri Sievänen for providing this thesis topic, data, and the general support and scientific guidance. I also like to appreciate great encourage from Professor Hyttinen toward the scientific research. I am grateful to have supports and advices on statistical analysis, medical imaging processing techniques, and creation of the finite element models. Professor Jari Viik helped me to perform the statistical analysis. MSc. Nathaniel Narra Girish gave me great technical supports for the medical image processing. I would also like to give thanks to previous MSc. Degree student Daniel Oravec who conducted similar thesis project and created the basis for the creation of the finite element model using the data we have. It is undoubtedly that using some of the methods developed by him accele