The potential relationship between leg bone length and running performance in well‐trained endurance runners

H Ueno, T Suga, K Takao, Y Miyake… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - sciendo.com
… factors, such as Achilles tendon length and forefoot bone length, were related to running
Second, because we recruited only male Japanese endurance runners, whether the present …

Muscle‐tendon architecture in Kenyans and Japanese: Potential role of genetic endowment in the success of elite Kenyan endurance runners

Y Kunimasa, K Sano, T Oda, C Nicol, PV Komi… - Acta …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… , we compared leg and foot segmental lengths as well as muscle-… males (i) from infancy to
adulthood and (ii) non-athletes … -effect relationship can yet be drawn between the structural …

Comparison of lower limb muscle architecture and geometry in distance runners with rearfoot and forefoot strike pattern

JM Gonzales, AJ Galpin, MM Montgomery… - Journal of Sports …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… We examined the association between footfall pattern and … Relationship between
sprint performance and muscle … length of leg muscles is greater in sprinters than distance

Lower leg muscle–tendon unit characteristics are related to marathon running performance

B Kovács, I Kóbor, Z Gyimes, Ö Sebestyén, J Tihanyi - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… The right lower leg of ten male distance runners was scanned … an association between AT
length and marathon running … that shorter track runners possibly use forefoot strike pattern. …

A pilot study on a potential relationship between leg bone length and sprint performance in sprinters; are there any event-related differences in 100-m and 400-m …

D Tomita, T Suga, M Terada, T Tanaka, Y Miyake… - BMC research …, 2020 - Springer
… a positive relationship between leg length and running performance in endurance runners
[12,13,… Our previous studies determined that longer forefoot bones and greater knee extensor …

Calcaneus height is a key morphological factor of sprint performance in sprinters

T Suga, M Terada, T Tanaka, Y Miyake, H Ueno… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
between the foot bone morphologies and sprint performance in sprinters. Foot images in 56
male sprinters … of the importance of the foot morphology on athletic performance in athletes. …

The biomechanical characteristics of high-performance endurance running

SJ Preece, C Bramah, D Mason - European Journal of Sport …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
running from a cohort of 14 high-performance (8 male) and … Note that leg length (l 0 ) was
calculated as the distance from … in foot position (foot strike index) in the high-performance group …

Relationship between connective tissue morphology and lower-limb stiffness in endurance runners. a prospective study

A Rubio-Peirotén, F García-Pinillos… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
runners under barefoot condition tended to show midfoot or … , leg length, speed, FT, and CT
is required to estimate a runner’… We assessed fourteen male runners capable of completing a …

Factors correlated with running economy among elite middle‐and longdistance runners

CE Hansen, M Stensvig, J Wienecke… - Physiological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… We investigated RE in a group of 12 male elite runners of … to measure foot and lower leg
volume of the athletes in the … significant correlation was found between the same foot ratio …

The effect of running on foot muscles and bones: a systematic review

A Garofolini, S Taylor - Human movement science, 2019 - Elsevier
Long distance runners tend to be afflicted by metatarsal … SOS, MRI No relationship between
midsole hardness and external … potential to improve bone density in black male athletes. The …