Research summary · Para sport
Field-based performance profiling in wheelchair basketball
An exploratory assessment describes how endurance, agility and upper-body strength vary among national-team wheelchair basketball players.
- Publication year
- 2026
- First published online
- Publication type
- Exploratory cross-sectional study
- Journal
- Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
- Population / context
- Latvian national-team wheelchair basketball
What the publication reports
Nine male athletes completed a six-minute push test, agility T-test and strength assessments. Faster agility times were associated with longer push-test distances. Functional classification showed no statistically clear relationship with the measured outcomes, and individual profiles varied substantially.
Limits and interpretation
The nine-player, single-team sample is too small to establish population norms or conclude that classification is unrelated to performance. Correlations do not show that training one capacity improves another, and field tests do not directly measure match performance.
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Multidimensional field-based performance profiling in the Latvian national wheelchair basketball team: an exploratory study
Original publication / indexed recordPMID: 42582374DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2026.1872790Full text at the sourceReader discussion
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