Efectos de la pandemia covid-19 sobre el rendimiento deportivo de los triatletas de la federación colombiana de triatlón

The Covid-19 pandemic affected social and sports dynamics worldwide, forcing all sports clubs, leagues and/or federations to reinvent themselves in their training processes to avoid loss of sports performance, adapting their training to the conditions that were held at home with the support of the coaches remotely. The objective of the study was to identify the effects of the pandemic on the sports performance of athletes from the Colombian Triathlon Federation (FCT) during the pre-confinement period and post gradual return to normality. The comparative descriptive methodology, longitudinal in nature, allowed us to identify the average of the results of each of the tests in the Minor categories, Junior, Elite and Sub-23 in women and men in the check-ups scheduled by the FCT during the year 2020 in face-to-face and 2021 remotely; the instruments used were the swimming tests (200, 400 and 800 meters) and the running tests (1000, 1500 and 3000 meters). The results showed that the Covid-19 pandemic affected the sports performance of some categories, while in others there were no significant changes in the average loss of sports performance. In conclusion, the difficulties in accessing the scenarios, the little face-to-face interaction with the coach, and the quality of the technological tools generate deep tensions in the remote training processes from home.