Relative Age Effect Among the Best Norwegian Track and Field Athletes of All Time: Comparisons of Explosive and Endurance Events.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of relative age effect (RAE) among the best Norwegian track and field athletes of all time, aged 13 years to senior, as well as to investigate the differences between athletes in events that impose different demands on their physical characteristics, categorised in endurance and explosiveness. The degree of RAE was investigated by examining the difference between the sample's (N = 21,711) quarterly birth distribution and the quarterly distribution of birth of the Norwegian population as a whole from 1966 to 2019. To determine whether or not an RAE was present, chi-square tests (χ²) were conducted against an even distribution, with Cramer's V (phi or ɸ) as a measure of effect size. The study's results show a st

SUBMITTER: Kirkeberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9315261 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature