Experimental verification of multifunctional biomechanical models effectiveness regarding main elements of technical actions, applied by track and field athletes specialized in sports walking, in the process of their technical training

Current training system for track and field athletes specialized in sports walking requires application of the latest technologies for modelling athletes’ technical actions. The approach suggested by the authors presupposes the use of multifunctional biomechanical models of the main elements of the technical actions by track and field athletes, who specialize in sports walking, as far as it has a beneficial effect on athletes’ chances to achieve high sports results. The authors suggest improving the process of technical training of track and field athletes based on the use of multifunctional biomechanical models of the main elements of the athletes' technical actions. The study contributes to the improvement of the process of technical training of track and field athletes who specialize in sports walking. The developed approach regarding use of multifunctional biomechanical models of the main technique elements within athletic walking in the process of track and field athletes’ technical training has proven its effectiveness in terms of a favourable effect on the level of technical preparation and sports results. In the main group, at the end of the experiment, there was an improvement of sports results from 1:27:18 (S = 0:01:41) to 1:23:44 (S = 0:02:07), which comprised 4.3% with statistically significant differences being p<0.05, while relatively to statistics (p<0.05) almost all informative biomechanical indicators of the technique have also improved. At the end of the experiment, the athletes of the control group also improved their sports results from 1:27:45 (S = 0:02:02) to 1:27:32 (S = 0:03:48), which represented 0.3% of statistically significant difference (p > 0.05). Almost all informative biomechanical indicators of the technique have also improved, however, statistically significant differences were not found (p > 0.05).