traditional sprints because they did not reach the threshold
sprint velocity (5.6 ms21).
The traditional sprint definition was also applied to the
sample data set revealing a total of 19 sprints that exceeded
a velocity of 5.6ms21 (Table 4). More than half of the sprints
were 1 second in duration covering a distance of up to 6.6 m.
There were 8 sprints that were 2–3 seconds in duration that
covered up to 11.9 and 18.2 m and reached a peak velocity of
8.0 and 6.3 ms21, respectively.
The implementation of the new and traditional definitions
of a sprint indicates that sprints are typically 1–2 seconds in
duration and cover 1.8–13.2 m. Neither definition of a sprint
identified any accelerations .3 seconds in duration. The
average peak velocity achieved during the most common
sprints was 1.8 (0.4) and 5.8 (0.7) ms21 for the new and
traditional sprint definitions, respectively. The total sprint
distance was approximately 243M and 174m for the new and
traditional sprint definitions, respectively.