The practical questions of “What key factors contribute to competitive performance of the sport?” and “How to train those factors to enhance performance?” are daily challenges faced by coaches and sports scientists. The aim of the study was to conduct a literature review on sports performance structure models, and to propose an effective procedure to develop the models. During the screening phase of the literature review, only the title and abstract were evaluated. In addition, an attempt was made to develop a model which may lead to an effective sport science support, using speed skating as an example. As a result, we found that the definition of the sports performance structure model was not clear in the literature. Furthermore, the procedure for creating the structure model that can be used in sport science support was discussed, and the following procedure was proposed: firstly, to decide the primal outcome, which is generally the result of the competitive performance; secondly, to create a model using the logic via the literature review and/ or videos etc. with the competition rules; thirdly, to modify the model by collecting insights from coaches. By adopting the deterministic model approach, we were able to view the sports performance structure model as a modeling procedure to identify the relationship between sports performance and its biomechanical factors. Coaches and sports scientists will play an important role in model development which requires not only the latest theoretical knowledge about high-performance sport, but also a wealth of empirical insights through practices of the sports science support.
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