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Faber, Irene R.; Liu, Meihan; Cece, Valérian; Jie, Ren; Martinent, Guillaume; Schorer, Jörg; Elferink-Gemser, Marije T. – High Ability Studies, 2020
Although relative age effects in sports have been studied worldwide, the underlying mechanisms are still under debate. This study adds to the existing knowledge by providing a further exploration of the within-year and between-year effects and their possible interaction in an individual skill/technique based sport: table tennis. Data of male and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Racquet Sports, Athletes, Athletics
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Loffing, Florian; Schorer, Jorg; Cobley, Steve P. – High Ability Studies, 2010
Relative Age Effects (RAEs), describing attainment inequalities as a result of interactions between biological age and age-grouping procedures, have been demonstrated across many sports contexts. This study examined whether an additional individual characteristic (i.e., handedness) mediated RAEs in tennis. Relative age and handedness distributions…
Descriptors: Handedness, Racquet Sports, Physical Fitness, Physical Characteristics