Kinematics Analysis on the Throwing Skills of Elite Chinese Male Hammer Athletes

Abstract:

Hammer throw is one of the traditional track and field events but it only has a short history in China. Chinese hammer athlete Shizhu Wang won the championship of China Long Throw Open in 2013, but the performance in the game has a big gap with the world record. In order to improve the techniques of Chinese men hammer athletes, have a clearly understanding of the rational factors and internal relations of hammer throw technique, enrich the theory of the action and provide reference to the hammer throw training, we made a 3D camera resolution on the top three men hammer throwers (Shizhu Wang, Dakai Qi and Xiwan Jiang) at the game site of China Long Throw Open in 2013, with the three-dimensional analysis we gained the kinematic parameters. We made a comparison on the parameters between Chinese and foreign elite men hammer throwers. The result shows that: Compared with the datas of outstanding foreign athletes, the pre-swing time is much larger and hammer velocity increment is much smaller in the pre-swing stage; the total rotation time is much longer, and the single to double supporting time is distributed unreasonly, what’s more, the change between the knee joint and bevel angle are too small; the shot speed ,with the fastest Shizhu Wang of 24.87 m/s, is much slower than that of foreign famous athlete Sedych (30.7 m /s), and longer hammer throw running time, which are the main reasons that affect athletes’ performance.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 950)
• Pages: 91-92
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.950.91
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Shuai Wang*, Ji He Zhou, Chong Jia
• Keywords: Hammer Throw, Kinematics, Three-Dimension Picture Analysis

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