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Fire brigade sport is a common sport in parts of Europe, with a growing body of popularity. In sports science, no research has been carried out in this field up to date. In consequence, there are no structures for talent scouting in firefighting sports. "100 m obstacle course" is one out of the four disciplines in this sport. For an efficient scouting of talents and training in general the necessary conditional and coordinative abilities must be identified. Dynamic balance, short sprint and motor differentiation ability seem to be promising abilities for determining completion performance. In 16 elite female fire brigade athletes the Purdue Pegboard Test for motor differentiation ability, a 23 m sprint for basic speed and Backward balancing, representing dynamic balance, were performed. Those results were correlated to the completion performance of those athletes to identify the highest influencing factors on performance in this discipline. In 16 elite female fire brigade athletes the Purdue Pegboard Test for motor differentiation ability, a 23 m sprint for basic speed and Backward balancing, representing dynamic balance, were performed. Those results were correlated to the completion performance of those athletes to identify the highest influencing factors on performance in this discipline.
Fire brigade sport is a sport with increasing in popularity. Till now, there are hardly any scientific approaches for recording performance-determining factors to be foung. For develop training-, but also prevention- and rehabilitation strategies, an analysis of the performance determining factors is required. The aim of the present study is to gain initial insights into condition and coordination. At this point we focus on female fire fighters in the discipline "100m obstacle course". Due to the lack of basic research, the research approaches were logically validated. By using the Purdue Pegboard Test, a 23m sprint and a backward balancing test, insights about the influence of the ability to differentiate, the dynamic ability to balance and the basic speed on the best performance in competition (PiC) are to be investigated. The PiC of the test persons of the discipline "100m obstacle course" is 20.58s ± 1.39s in average. The fastest time is 18,68s and the slowest time 23,87s. This results in a span (d) of 5.19s. When testing the motor differentiation ability, the test persons require an average of 8.70s ± 1.00s. The fastest test result is 7.29s and the slowest is 10.50s. This results in a range of 3.21s for the test results. When testing the dynamic balance ability, the test persons required an average of 11.30s ± 1.50s. The minimum of the values and thus the fastest time is 9.50s. The maximum is 14.28s. The span is 4.78s. The test persons needed an average of 4.47s ± 0.26s for running the "23m Sprint". The fastest time was 4.23s and the slowest time 5.30s. The range (d) between the fastest and slowest time is 1.07s. All test results are in a monotonous connection with the PiC of the test persons. The basic speed has the highest correlation (r=0.81). The dynamic equilibrium ability correlates with r=0.63 with PiC. There is hardly any correlation to the motor differentiation
ability (r=0.18). It should be noted that in the training-, prevention- and rehabilitation process, particular attention must be
paid to the creation and restoration of sprinting ability and dynamic balance ability.