Table 1. Means (± standard deviations) of each phase and 15 m time for both backstroke start variants.

Phase	Upper limbs horizontally positioned	Upper limbs vertically positioned
Hands-off (s)	.55 (.06)	.55 (.05)
Take-off (s)	.21 (.02)	.21 (.03)
Flight (s)	.17 (.08)	.17 (.06)
Entry (s)	.39 (.12)	.39 (.11)
15 m (s)	7.14 (.54)	7.12 (.51)