Advocating individual-based profiles of elite athletes to capture the multifactorial nature of elite sports performance.

ABSTRACT: Elite athletes are high-performance outliers within their specific sports. Even though science seeks to understand the nature of expertise and elite performance, much knowledge remains compartmentalized within subdisciplines. Despite this multidimensionality being acknowledged, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding elite athletes is still rare. This paper synthesizes insights across scientific domains in order to describe the population and individual characteristics of elite athletes. We analyzed diagnostic data from approximately 300 German squad athletes across eight different sports (e.g., gymnastics, volleyball, ice hockey, 3 × 3 basketball etc., age_female = 18.95 ± 4.84 years, age_male = 19.32 ± 4.19 years) with expertise values ranging from 2 (low exper

SUBMITTER: Zentgraf K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11530532 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature