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Participation in athletics training and competition involves a risk of illness and injury.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Purpose<\/jats:title>\n To describe injury and illness in British Olympic track and field athletes over three full training and competition seasons.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Study Design<\/jats:title>\n Descriptive Epidemiology Study<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n A total of 111 athletes on the British national program were followed prospectively for three consecutive seasons between 2015-2018. Team medical personnel recorded all injuries and illnesses during this time, following current consensus-based methods. All data pertaining to these records were reviewed and analyzed for sports injury and illness epidemiological descriptive statistics.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n The average age of the athletes was 24 years for both males and females (24 years, +\/- 4). Total exposure for the three seasons was 79 205 athlete days (217 athlete years). Overuse injuries (56.4%) were more frequent than acute injuries (43.6%). The thigh was the most common injury location (0.6 per athlete year), followed by the lower leg (0.4 per athlete year) and foot (0.3 per athlete year). Muscle and tendon were the most commonly injured tissues, while strains and tears were the most common pathology type. Hamstring muscle strain was the most common diagnosis causing time loss, followed by Achilles tendinopathy and soleus muscle strain. Respiratory illness was the most common illness type (0.3 per athlete year).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n Hamstring strains, Achilles tendinopathy, and soleus strains are the most common injuries in athletics and have highest burden. Respiratory illness is the most common illness and has the highest burden. Knowledge of this injury and illness profile within athletics could be utilised for the development of targeted prevention measures within the sport at the elite level.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Level of Evidence<\/jats:title>\n 3<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.26603\/001c.32589","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,1]],"date-time":"2022-04-01T08:46:32Z","timestamp":1648802792000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Injury and Illness in Elite Athletics: A Prospective Cohort Study Over Three Seasons"],"prefix":"10.26603","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7165-7067","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shane","family":"Kelly","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Ballet Healthcare, The Royal Ballet, London, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4660-2835","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Noel","family":"Pollock","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"British Athletics, National Performance Institute, Loughborough, UK; Institute of Sport Exercise and Health, London, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9649-6885","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George","family":"Polglass","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"British Athletics, National Performance Institute, Loughborough, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3713-8938","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ben","family":"Clarsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway; Centre for Disease Burden, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"11140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,1]]},"reference":[{"issue":"11","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1944","DOI":"10.1242\/jeb.064527","article-title":"Muscular strategy shift in human running: dependence of running speed on hip and ankle muscle performance","volume":"215","author":"Tim W. 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