The aspect of nationality and performance in a mountain ultra-maratho-the 'Swiss Alpine Marathon'

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 748-762

  Eichenberger, Evelyn ^a   Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Rüst, Christoph Alexander ^a   Lepers, Romuald ^c   Rosemann, Thomas ^a   Onywera, Vincent Ochieng ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Alpine ultra running; Endurance running; Ethnicity; Ultra endurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874169907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19885202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4100/jhse.2012.74.03     Document Type: Article

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