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Sports Medicine
Published in: Sports Medicine 1/2011

01-01-2011 | Correspondence

No Evidence for the Relative Age Effect in Professional Women’s Sports

Author: Nadav Goldschmied

Published in: Sports Medicine | Issue 1/2011

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Excerpt

The relative age effect (RAE) refers “both to the immediate participation and long-term attainment constraints in sports, occurring as a result of chronological age and associated physical differences as well as selection practices in annual age-grouped cohorts.”[1] …
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Metadata
Title
No Evidence for the Relative Age Effect in Professional Women’s Sports
Author
Nadav Goldschmied
Publication date
01-01-2011
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Sports Medicine / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0112-1642
Electronic ISSN: 1179-2035
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2165/11586780-000000000-00000

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