Table 1.
Number of races, unique athletes and the average (95% confidence interval) race distance, maximum climb, total climb, air temperature and humidity.
Fig 1.
The distribution of overall pursuit winners in biathlon for the different start numbers in the race (i.e. based on results of the sprint race) in the seasons 2011–2015 in men (M) and women (W).
Table 2.
The average correlation coefficients and the number of races with significant positive or negative correlations between time behind the overall pursuit race winner and start, penalty, course, shooting and range time behind the overall winner.
Table 3.
Summary of the stepwise multiple regression analyses performed individually for each race with total time behind the overall winner as dependent variable.
Table 4.
The average correlation coefficients and the number of races with significant positive or negative correlations between time behind the fastest isolated pursuit race time and start, penalty, course, shooting and range time behind the athlete with the fastest isolated pursuit race time.
Table 5.
Summary of the stepwise multiple regression analyses performed individually for each race with total time behind the isolated pursuit race winner as dependent variable.