Position-specific workload and performance analysis in professional rugby union: Insights from global positioning system data and principal component analysis

• Xiangyu Ren ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  * E-mail: xiangyu.ren@ens-rennes.fr

  Affiliations Sino-French Joint Research Center of Sport Science, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention of Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Movement, Sport, Health Laboratory, Rennes 2 University, Bruz, France, Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes, Bruz, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-8625

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• Simon Boisbluche,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Rugby Club Vannes, French Rugby Federation, Vannes, France

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• Kilian Philippe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Movement, Balance, Performance and Health, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Tarbes, France

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• Mathieu Demy,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Rugby Club Vannes, French Rugby Federation, Vannes, France

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• Zhiwen Hu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Sino-French Joint Research Center of Sport Science, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention of Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Movement, Sport, Health Laboratory, Rennes 2 University, Bruz, France, Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes, Bruz, France

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• Shuzhe Ding,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Sino-French Joint Research Center of Sport Science, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention of Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Jacques Prioux

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sino-French Joint Research Center of Sport Science, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention of Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Movement, Sport, Health Laboratory, Rennes 2 University, Bruz, France, Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes, Bruz, France

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