The Relationship Between Visual Function and Performance in Para Swimming

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 1 Characteristics of VI athletes according to sports classes

Variables	Sport class
Variables	S13 (n = 19)	S12 (n = 14)	S11 (n = 12)
% women	58^a	29^a	58^a
Mean age (SD)	18.3^a (4.1)	21.6^a (5.5)	23.8^a (9.9)
Mean number of lifetime swimming training hours (SD)	5600^a (3329)	8274^a (5234)	7170^a (3911)
% health condition
Albinism	16	0	0
Anterior eye	11	7	0
Macula	37	29	0
Nystagmus	0	7	0
Optic nerve	5	21	42
Retinal	5	29	42
Retinal + Macula	26	7	8
Whole eye	0	0	8

Same letters (i.e., a) in superscript indicate no difference after Bonferroni correction (p < 0.05) when compared to other groups. For the type of VI, frequencies were too small to run meaningful analyses. SD standard deviation