Analysis of the performance of athletes at the Olympic games and world championships from 2008 to 2023 in middle distance running (800, 1500 m)

Abstract

Starting from 2008 until today, the total number of athletes who represented Ukraine at the Olympic Games and World Championships is 14 people. It was not difficult to calculate that if the runners (men and women) in the selection competitions at the championships of Ukraine showed the selection standard and as a result got into the team for performances in this type of discipline, their number in two types (800, 1500 m) would be 48 participants at the Olympic Games games, and the world championships - 180 people. A simple analysis shows that from 2008 to 2023, Ukrainian middle-distance runners could represent Ukraine in the number of 228 people. It was determined that athletes in many cases at qualifying competitions (Championship of Ukraine and others) do not fulfill their qualifying standards, and lose the opportunity to participate in these forums. Based, in our opinion, on the correct understanding of the training system for middle-distance runners and its orientation, the main problems that are an obstacle in the implementation of the direction, an integral set in the accumulation of training potential, both in physical, technical and psychological impact on the athlete's body, have been identified. To solve these problems in the management system of middle-distance runner training, we have developed the main components of physical qualities (speed, dexterity, endurance, strength, flexibility), which include pedagogical and anatomical-physiological indicators that affect the development, maintenance, manifestation and promotion of forecasting entry of athletes into sports form, as well as the athlete's performance at the main annual and quadrennial competitions. The peculiarity of the developed components is that they are related to the education of the main physiological systems of the athlete and are aimed at the development of physical qualities and improvement of technical skills.