Análise dos tries do rugby em cadeira de rodas na paralímpiada de Toquio 2020

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Wheelchair rugby is a popular Paralympic sport that is performed by people with quadriplegia and other similar functional characteristics. Wheelchair Rugby is a Paralympic sport that has a recent history and, as a result, several studies have been carried out. Players are divided into seven functional classes (from 0.5 to 3.5). This classification is important so that the competition can be equal, thus making it a democratic sport in which different people, with different motor impairments, can compete. The sport is characterized by intense and short-term actions, carried out throughout the game. Therefore, it is a sport of short intervals of attack-defense actions. The objective of this present study was to analyze tryes in high-performance wheelchair rugby games. In total, 1221 tries were analyzed in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, thus verifying the total number of tries for each functional class, through the summary of the Wheelchair Rugby games. A significant difference was observed between class groups, regardless of the period of play (P<0.001), but not between periods (P= 0.791) or interaction between period and functional class (P= 0.993). When comparing the amount of trie per game by class groups, significant differences were detected between all groups (P< 0.001). Thus showing that there was a difference between classes in scoring tries, but there was no difference in the period, thus showing that teams must seek to individualize their training for each player.