Introduction Sprint‐distance adventure racing is a multisport activity that has seen
exponential growth over the past decade. Despite this, there is no published descriptive …

Objectives: To assess the demographics and training characteristics of adventure racing
athletes in the United Kingdom, the prevalence and anatomical distribution of hazardous …

Chapter 3 Athletics Page 1 26 Introduction Athletics, also known as track and field, is a group
of sport events that involve running, jumping and throwing (Official Olympic games website …

Track and field (athletics) is an Olympic sport composed of several different disciplines:
sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, combined events, middle and long distances, marathon, and …

Background Competing in international athletics championships bears the risk of injury.
Athletics is composed of different disciplines with different physical, mechanical, technical …

Abstracts Page 1 074 SLEEP AND GENERAL HEALTH PREDICT HIGHER INJURY RATES IN
ENDURANCE ATHLETES: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY 1Kieran O’Sullivan*, 1,2Richard …

This new volume in the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published under the
auspices of the International Olympic Committee, provides a state-of-the-art account of the …

Background: Little is known of injury patterns in track and field (athletics). Injury prevalence
has been proposed as the most appropriate measure of the injury rate in sports where …

Injuries can counter the beneficial effects of sports participation at a young age if a child or
adolescent is unable to continue to participate because of residual effects of injury …

Objectives To prevent the occurrence of injury in a sport, exact knowledge of injury patterns
is needed. To synthesize sport-specific injuries in track and field comparing elite and …