Table 2.

Comparisons between national and regional level swimmers for backstroke turn variables.

	National Level	Regional Level
15 Turn Time (s)	8.88 (.43)	9.84 (.36) ***
Distance in (m)	3.18 (.48)	2.66 (.55) *
UW distance (m)	6.51 (2.57)	5.18 (1.17)
UW velocity (m·s-1)	2.32 (.36)	2.02 (.11) *
Normalized UW velocity (m·s-1)	1.55 (.51)	1.36 (.51) *
Stroking velocity (m·s-1)	1.49 (.14)	1.34 (.14) ***

UW: Underwater. Significant differences between levels:

^* p < 0.05;

^***p < 0.001