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Category

Sports Performance & Elite Sports

Document Type

Paper

Abstract

Trail running is an emergent endurance discipline. The aim of this work was to compare male and female trail runners for biomechanics in a field study. This would contribute to design more sex-specific training protocols. Fourteen participants carried out a trail running test wearing a full body motion capture system. In uphill sections, male athletes showed longer stride length, resulting from more effective trunk kinematics and hip-trunk coordination. In downhill sections, female athletes showed a more efficient hip-knee coordination pattern, resulting in better safety. To improve performance and mitigate risk of falls, females may focus on reducing trunk range of motion as well as optimizing trunk-hip coordination at foot strike in uphill sections, whilst males may reduce ankle plantar flexion during propulsion phase and reduce ankle dorsiflexion at foot strike in downhill sections.

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