An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level
The Relative Age Effect (RAE) can be described as the advantage of being born early after a certain cut-off date within a group of selection. The effect has been found across a wide range of sports and is particularly evident in pre-elite sports and team sports with a high selection pressure. At the...
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| author | Øyvind Bjerke Arve Vorland Pedersen Tore K. Aune Håvard Lorås |
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| description | The Relative Age Effect (RAE) can be described as the advantage of being born early after a certain cut-off date within a group of selection. The effect has been found across a wide range of sports and is particularly evident in pre-elite sports and team sports with a high selection pressure. At the absolute top level in team elite sports, the advantage of being relatively older has been reported to disappear, and even reverse, so that the relatively younger athletes are advantaged. In order to further examine such a reversal of the RAE, we investigated the performance of the overall top 50 skiers each year in the alpine World Cup, over a period of 20 years, among men (N = 234) and women (N = 235). The data indicated that the relatively younger male athletes at the absolute top level had accumulated, on average, more World Cup points compared to the relatively older skiers. No such effect was observed among the female skiers. This finding suggest the existence of a reversed relative age effect in male elite alpine skiing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-813e5b84bdd247968a4c6cff3df53bdc2022-12-21T19:16:58ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-07-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.01210272299An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top LevelØyvind Bjerke0Arve Vorland Pedersen1Tore K. Aune2Håvard Lorås3Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheim, NorwayDepartment of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheim, NorwayDepartment of Physical Education and Sport Science, Faculty of Teacher Education and Arts, Nord UniversityLevanger, NorwayDepartment of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheim, NorwayThe Relative Age Effect (RAE) can be described as the advantage of being born early after a certain cut-off date within a group of selection. The effect has been found across a wide range of sports and is particularly evident in pre-elite sports and team sports with a high selection pressure. At the absolute top level in team elite sports, the advantage of being relatively older has been reported to disappear, and even reverse, so that the relatively younger athletes are advantaged. In order to further examine such a reversal of the RAE, we investigated the performance of the overall top 50 skiers each year in the alpine World Cup, over a period of 20 years, among men (N = 234) and women (N = 235). The data indicated that the relatively younger male athletes at the absolute top level had accumulated, on average, more World Cup points compared to the relatively older skiers. No such effect was observed among the female skiers. This finding suggest the existence of a reversed relative age effect in male elite alpine skiing.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01210/fullindividual sportperformanceelite levelalpine ski racingtalent |
| spellingShingle | Øyvind Bjerke Arve Vorland Pedersen Tore K. Aune Håvard Lorås An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level Frontiers in Psychology individual sport performance elite level alpine ski racing talent |
| title | An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level |
| title_full | An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level |
| title_fullStr | An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level |
| title_short | An Inverse Relative Age Effect in Male Alpine Skiers at the Absolute Top Level |
| title_sort | inverse relative age effect in male alpine skiers at the absolute top level |
| topic | individual sport performance elite level alpine ski racing talent |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01210/full |
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