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Variation in competition performance, number of races, and age: Long-term athlete development in elite female swimmers

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  • Dennis-Peter Born
  • Ishbel Lomax
  • Michael Romann

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While talent development and the contributing factors to success are hardly discussed among the experts in the field, the aim of the study was to investigate annual variation in competition performance (AVCP), number of races per year, and age, as potential success factors for international swimming competitions. Data from 40’277 long-course races, performed by all individual female starters (n = 253) at the 2018 European Swimming Championships (2018EC) for all 10 years prior to these championships, were analyzed. Relationships between 2018EC ranking and potential success factors, i.e., AVCP, number of races per year, and age, were determined using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis. While AVCP was not related to ranking, higher ranked swimmers at the 2018EC swam more races during each of the ten years prior to the championships (P

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  • Dennis-Peter Born & Ishbel Lomax & Michael Romann, 2020. "Variation in competition performance, number of races, and age: Long-term athlete development in elite female swimmers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-14, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0242442
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242442
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