Abstract
Abstract Artistic swimming (AS) is a sport evaluated by fifteen judges in routine sessions. The athletes' goal is to achieve proficient motor patterns according to pre-established criteria. The present studied analyzed whether there is difference between the two groups of AS judges with different levels of experience. The group of the International Swimming Federation - FINA (IG) evaluates AS at national and international level and the non-FINA group (NG) evaluates AS only at national level. Twenty experienced judges were divided into groups, 10 IG judges and 10 NG judges. Thus, judges evaluated the item execution of three routines with five required elements. Cronbach's alpha coefficient showed high internal consistency in IG (a= 0.85 in T1 and 0.83 in T2). In NG, internal consistency was observed in T1 and low consistency in T2 (a= 0.82 in T1 and 0.39 in T2). Evaluation analysis between IG and NG was significant (p?0.0330) and reliability analysis (bias: -0.1266 95% agreement limit: -1.642 to 1.388) showed consistency and high degree of confidence in results. The findings suggest that the item execution of required elements showed high objectivity regarding judges with different levels of experience, IG and NG, regardless of categorization and time of practice. FINA has changed the number of judges and the number of items evaluated in routine sessions. It is suggested that the reduction of items has contributed in a positive way so that judges can focus more on evaluation itself.
Highlights
Artistic swimming (AS) is an Olympic sport characterized by different events: solo (1 woman), duet (2 women), mixed duet (1 man and 1 woman), team (8 women), combined free and highlight (10 women)
Three AS athletes aged 17-18 years (8 years of experience in the sport), 10 international judges listed on the FINA committee (IG) with at least 25 years of experience and 10 judges participating only in national competitions unlisted on the FINA committee (NG) with at least 5 years of experience
There was no significant difference in the total score between International Swimming Federation FINA (IG) (6.89 ± 0.28) and non-FINA group (NG) judges (6.84 ± 0.22), Figure 1
Summary
Artistic swimming (AS) is an Olympic sport characterized by different events: solo (1 woman), duet (2 women), mixed duet (1 man and 1 woman), team (8 women), combined free and highlight (10 women). In this sport, athletes’ performance consists of a sequence of movements with the accompaniment of a song in routine tests or without music in figure tests. Fifteen judges divided into two tables, eight on one side of the pool and seven on the other, evaluate athletes in the following evaluation components: (1) execution / synchronization; (2) artistic impression (FR) or general impression (TR); and (3) difficulty (FR) or execution of elements / synchronization (TR)[2]. Each judge must study the totality of evaluation components for both tests, as they must be able to evaluate all components, for example, evaluation in the routine test occurs alternately so that judge 1 evaluates component 1, the judge 2 evaluates component 2, repeating this alternation until judge 15
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