Absolute size and proportionality characteristics of World Championship female basketball players

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 485-490

  Ackland, T R ^a   Schreiner, A B ^b   Kerr, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WA Institute of Sport   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Basketball; Females; Kinanthropometry; Proportionality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASKETBALL; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BASKETBALL; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030696720     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026404197367128     Document Type: Article

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