ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Variations in the relative age effect with age and sex, and over time-Elite-level data from international soccer world cups.PloS one · 2022Article
- The relative age effect in young athletes: A countywide analysis of 9-14-year-old participants in all competitive sports.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Relative Age Effect in Professional Futsal Players.Journal of human kinetics · 2020Article
- Variations in the constituent year effect in Junior World Championships in alpine skiing: A window into relative development effects?PloS one · 2020Article
- Did the Relative Age Effect Change Over a Decade in Elite Youth Ski Racing?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2019Article
- Relative Age Influences Performance of World-Class Track and Field Athletes Even in the Adulthood.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Anthropometric and Physical Performance of Youth Handball Players: The Role of the Relative Age.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The Relative Age Effect (RAE) can be described as the advantage of being born early after a certain cut-off date within a group of selection. The effect has been found across a wide range of sports and is particularly evident in pre-elite sports and team sports with a high selection pressure. At the absolute top level in team elite sports, the advantage of being relatively older has been reported to disappear, and even reverse, so that the relatively younger athletes are advantaged. In order to further examine such a reversal of the RAE, we investigated the performance of the overall top 50 skiers each year in the alpine World Cup, over a period of 20 years, among men (
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