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Identifying key visual skills is crucial for athletes. This review outlines essential visual hardware and software skills for rugby players, establishing a benchmark for future research in sports vision.

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  • Sports Science
  • Ophthalmology
  • Human Performance

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  • Keen vision is critical for athletic performance, decision-making, and executing sports drills.
  • Understanding sport-specific visual demands is essential for accurate athlete assessment.
  • This review aims to identify key visual skills for rugby and provide a research reference point.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify the most important visual skills required for optimal performance in rugby.
  • To establish a foundational reference for future research on visual skills in rugby players.

Main Methods:

  • An extensive electronic literature search was conducted across multiple scientific databases.
  • Inclusion criteria focused on English-language records examining vision and rugby performance.
  • Data extraction included the relationship between vision and match performance, study purpose, and tactical behavior definitions.

Main Results:

  • The search identified 80 records, with 51 meeting the inclusion criteria.
  • Key visual skills were categorized into visual hardware (acuity, depth perception, fusion flexibility, contrast sensitivity) and visual software (eye tracking, hand-eye coordination, focusing, peripheral vision, recognition speed/span, response time, memory).

Conclusions:

  • Rugby players require both visual hardware and software skills for effective gameplay.
  • These skills are vital for observing teammates, understanding opponents, ball handling, and anticipating play.
  • Further research is needed to validate the impact of specific visual skills on competition outcomes.