No relative age effect in the birth dates of award-winning athletes in male professional team sports

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 570-573

  Ford, Paul R ^a   Williams, A Mark ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual age grouping; Athlete development; Expert performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054009337     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2011.10599790     Document Type: Article

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