Mixed
The term Mixed (Engl. : Mixed mixed) or Mixte (French. Mixte = mixed) designated competitions in which each team at least one player and a player to be used. The best known variant is the mixed doubles , consisting of a man and a woman.
In mixed games , the game system is usually changed compared to men's or women's doubles in order to be able to better utilize the gender-specific features (e.g. more muscle strength in the male team player). So occupied z. B. in badminton the man in mixed doubles primarily the attack position in the back of the playing field.
A distinction must be made between the mixed and the mixed teams in international competitions in which the participants come from several countries.
sports
The mixed discipline can be found in the following sports:
- badminton
- In basketball there is a variant called Mixed, in which mixed teams are played
- beach volleyball
- the biathlon a will for several years Mixed - Relay Competition held; women run 2 × 6 km and men 2 × 7.5 km
- Curling
- Formation skydiving (the parity between men and women is not mandatory)
- Jokeiba
- Canoeing ( two-man canoes mixed in canoe slalom and white water racing, as well as mixed classes alongside women and men or open in dragon boats )
- Pétanque (here the French word mixte is used), besides a doublette there is also a triplet mixte
- Luge
- Ski jumping , since 2013 at the Nordic World Ski Championships
- Tug of war / rope pulling
- tennis
- Table tennis
- Ultimate
- In floorball there is the special variant floorball mixed , which is played with special rules
- In mixed volleyball , the net is hung at an intermediate height of 2.35 m.
literature
- Lake, RJ: Gender and Etiquette in British Lawn Tennis 1870-1939: A Case Study of 'Mixed Doubles', The International Journal of the History of Sport 29 (5), 2012, pp. 691-710
- Lake, RJ: Guys don't whale away at the women ': etiquette and gender relations in contemporary mixed-doubles tennis, Sport in Society 19 (8-9), 2016, pp. 1214-1233
credentials
- ^ Badminton: Doubles Mixed . Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ↑ Biathlon - 2 × 6km Women + 2 × 7.5km Men Mixed Relay . Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ^ Curling - Mixed Doubles . Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ↑ От биатлона до фристайла. В программу Сочи-2014 включили пять новых дисциплин . Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ↑ Tennis: Doubles Mixed . Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ↑ Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Added to Tokyo 2020 . International Table Tennis Federation. June 9, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2018.