Data analysis and qualitative assessment of 5000 meter male middle distance runners

Abstract

Sports and games has a great importance in education and also in maintaining health and fitness. To develop endurance, one may include middle distance run in their daily fitness activities. The 5000-meters middle distance running events are contested at all global athletics championships including India. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the pacing strategies of foreign elite male athlete and Indian male athlete in 5000-meter middle distance race. The study is to exhibit whether split 100 meter times of 5000-meter are varied in between foreign elite male athlete and Indian male athlete. Ten male leading foreign athletes are selected as foreign athletes from readily publically available data of the International Association of Athletic Federation (IAAF) World Athletics Championship 2017, World Athletics Championship 2019 and ten male Indian athletes are selected as Indian athletes from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) All India Inter University Athletics Championship 2020. The research brings forth how the variations occurs among the Indian athletes of Male population and foreign athlete of Male population. The constant variation in their running pace, velocity of the foreign athletes is exhibited in accordance with their distance parameter including the distance coverages world championship from 100 meter to 5000 meter.