Table 7.

Sprint times recorded during 5-m, 10-m and 20-m linear sprints in adult male basketball players

Study	Playing position	Competition level	Category	5-m sprint time (s)	10-m sprint time (s)	20-m sprint time (s)
Alemdaroglu [61]	All	Turkish D1	Professional		1.86 ± 0.30
Barrera-Domínguez et al. [64]	All	Spanish National Division	Professional	0.88 ± 0.04	1.47 ± 0.08
Ben Abdelkrim et al. [65]	All (U20)	Tunisian National Team	Representative	1.00 ± 0.10
	All	Tunisian National Team	Professional	1.04 ± 0.16	1.84 ± 0.10 1.88 ± 0.15
Boone and Bourgois [27]	Point guard	Belgian D1	Professional	1.40 ± 0.03	2.16 ± 0.09
	Shooting guard	Belgian D1	Professional	1.40 ± 0.09	2.19 ± 0.08
	Small forward	Belgian D1	Professional	1.45 ± 0.09	2.23 ± 0.09
	Power forward	Belgian D1	Professional	1.47 ± 0.08	2.25 ± 0.08
	Centre	Belgian D1	Professional	1.51 ± 0.07	2.34 ± 0.11
Chaouachi et al. [67]	All	Tunisian National Team	Professional	0.82 ± 0.05	1.70 ± 0.06
Dawes and Spiteri [51]	All	NCAA D2	Collegiate	0.80 ± 0.04		2.80 ± 0.08
de Sousa Fortes et al. [59]	All	State Basketball Championship Brazil	Professional			2.43 ± 0.21
Delextrat and Cohen [114]	All All All	BUSA D1 and D2 BUSA D1 BUSA D2	Collegiate—Representative Representative Collegiate			3.33 ± 0.26 3.29 ± 0.12 3.36 ± 0.36
Freitas et al. [71]	All	Spanish Liga EBA D4	Semi-professional		1.91 ± 0.09
Gomes et al. [72]	All	PSBC	Professional			3.24 ± 0.22
Köklü et al. [79]	All	Turkish D1 and D2	Professional		1.75 ± 0.08
	All	Turkish D1	Professional		1.78 ± 0.80
	All	Turkish D2	Professional		1.72 ± 0.80
	Guards	Turkish D1 and D2	Professional		1.72 ± 0.07
	Forward	Turkish D1 and D2	Professional		1.72 ± 0.07
	Centre	Turkish D1 and D2	Professional		1.80 ± 0.08
Korkmaz and Karahan [107]	All	Turkish D1	Professional			2.70 ± 0.14
	All	Turkish D2	Professional			2.80 ± 0.10
	All	Turkish D3	Semi-professional			2.80 ± 0.13
Lockie et al. [113]	All	Australian State level	Semi-professional		1.81 ± 0.09
	All	Recreational Australia	Amateur		1.88 ± 0.07
Maggioni et al. [58]	All	Volunteer Players	Semi-professional	1.04 ± 0.05	1.77 ± 0.04	3.10 ± 0.12
Montgomery et al. [28]	All	Australian State Level	Semi-professional			3.09 ± 0.10
	Guard	Australian State Level	Semi-professional			3.04 ± 0.07
	Forward	Australian State Level	Semi-professional			3.13 ± 0.13
	Centre	Australian State Level	Semi-professional			3.10 ± 0.09
Pliauga et al. [39]	All	Lithuanian National Basketball League	Collegiate			2.98 ± 0.32
Pliauga et al. [86]	All	Lithuanian National Basketball League	Collegiate		1.80 ± 0.03
Pojskić et al. [87]	Perimeter	Bosnia and Herzegovina D1	Professional			3.14 ± 0.09
Pojskić et al. [89]	Perimeter	Bosnian Premier League	Professional			3.14 ± 0.09
Poole et al. [112]	All	Australian State level QBL	Semi-professional	1.14 ± 0.07	1.90 ± 0.10
Ramirez-Campillo et al. [29]	All	SCCSBL	Collegiate			3.00 ± 0.11
Rodriguez-Rosell et al. [91]	All	Spanish Liga EBA D4	Semi-professional		1.84 ± 0.10	3.20 ± 0.16
Scanlan et al. [21]	All	Australian State Level	Semi-professional	1.07 ± 0.07	1.83 ± 0.10	3.16 ± 0.19
Scanlan et al. [4]	Backcourt	Australian State Level	Semi-professional	1.05 ± 0.03	1.78 ± 0.05	3.08 ± 0.12
	Frontcourt	Australian State Level	Semi-professional	1.10 ± 0.09	1.87 ± 0.13
Scanlan et al. [30]	All	Australian State Level	Semi-professional			3.24 ± 0.22 2.97 ± 0.06
Shalfawi et al. [93]	All	Professional Level Norway	Professional		1.88 ± 0.21	3.20 ± 0.33
Townsend et al. [111]	All	Collegiate D1 United States	Collegiate			3.31 ± 0.151080
Xie et al. [95]	All	NCAA D1 university and club teams	Collegiate		5.67 ± 0.17 m/s	7.94 ± 0.45 m/s

Data presented as mean ± standard deviation

BUSA British Universities Sports Association, D1 Division one competition, D2 Division two competition, D3 Division three competition, D4 Division four competition, Liga EBA Liga Española de Baloncesto Aficionado, NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association, Perimeter point guard, shooting guard and small forward positions, PSBC Paulista State Basketball Championships, SCCSBL South Chilean College System Basketball League, U20 players competing in an under 20 years of age competition, ^m/s indicates velocity in m^.s⁻¹, ¹⁰⁸⁰ indicates performed using 1080 sprint with 1-kg resistance