Dr. Hab., Professor G.A. Gilev^{1, 2}
V.V. Vladykina¹
Associate Professor A.A. Pleshakov²
V.V. Belyaev³
PhD, Associate Professor E.A. Zubko^3
1Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow
²Moscow Polytechnic University, Moscow
³Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow

Objective of the study was to profile the age-, body-length and mass-specific variations in the women’s swimming sprint elite by events, swimming styles and fitness stages.
Methods and structure of the study. The authors analyzed for the purposes of the study the relevant study reports to generalize the theoretical materials, plus reports of the top national and international swimming events, with a special analyses of the women’s swimming sprint elite’s anthropometrics by the swimming styles, events and fitness periods for the last few decades. Subject to analyses were also the elite swimming sprint (including the 200m event) swimmers’ ages, body masses and lengths versus the competitive progresses in the top-ranking events (including the 2012/ 2016 Olympic Games finals). The latest data were compared with the relevant historical elite swimming sprint data and supported by questioning surveys of the top-class SS elite coaches.
Results and conclusions. Modern women’s swimming sprint elite was found meaningfully different on the active age, body length and body mass scales from their peers of the last decades. The fitness ages of the elite were found to either expand or contract depending on the styles and events. We age-grouped the 2012/ 2016 Olympic Games competitors by the performance records into the fitness peak period, fitness keeping period and fitness sagging period. The key anthropometrics of the top-16 competitors in the 2016 Olympic Games by the styles and events may be conservatively used as benchmarks for the swimming styles and events analyzing purposes.

Keywords: swimming sprint , women’s swimming, fitness peak, age, body length, body mass.

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