Effect of swimming on the overall triathlon performance in triathlon races World Championships in years 2000 - 2010

Title: The influence of swimming part of triathlon the total performance in competitions of world championships 2000-2010. Objectives: The aim is to investigate the influence of the swimming part of the total performance in triathlon in the lost 10 years. Methods: The relation between two variables (times from swimming and the total time of competitions from competitions of world championships 2000-2010 were described with the help of linear regression. Individual years were then compared in a point graph. Results: Our hypothese were confirmmed. It means that the result from the swimming part explains the result from the competition in less than 30%, which means the R2 is smaller than 0,3. We also found, that the influnence of the swimming part on the final result in triathlon has not changed in the last years. The relationship times in the swimming part and total (final) times was closest in 2005 (R2= 0,21). In other years, this dependence is lower, R2 was smaller than 0,07. Keywords: linear regression, longitudinal analysis, performanc