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Methods: The study included 418 physically active university students. Participants completed questionnaires regarding injury history, physical activity, and sport participation and underwent standardized anthropometric and body composition assessments. Analyses included Kendall\u2019s Tau correlations, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), hierarchical clustering, heatmap phenotyping, tanglegram-based clustering analysis, and distance-based redundancy analysis (dbRDA). The tanglegram analyses were intended as exploratory structure-matching procedures designed to evaluate similarities in hierarchical organization between domains rather than direct biological associations, causal relationships, or predictive effects. Results: Weak but significant associations were observed between selected body composition variables and injury outcomes, particularly for skeletal-muscle-related indicators and lower limb injuries. MCA and clustering analyses identified partially differentiated sport-training profiles and exploratory injury-burden phenotypes. Topology-based cross-domain matching analyses suggested partial structural correspondence between body composition, training context, and injury phenotypes; however, the most anatomically coherent patterns were observed for local body composition variables. Nevertheless, overall cross-domain concordance remained weak-to-moderate. dbRDA demonstrated statistically significant but weak associations for body composition (adjusted R2 = 0.027, p = 0.001) and the combined explanatory model (adjusted R2 = 0.022, p = 0.023), whereas the training context model was not significant (adjusted R2 = 0.002, p = 0.304). Conclusions: Injury occurrence was weakly associated with body composition and training context characteristics within a multidimensional exploratory framework. 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