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Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis
Background: The sport overrepresentation of early-born athletes within a selection year is called relative age effect (RAE). Moreover, gender performance differences depend on the sport. The main objectives of the study were to compare performances between gender and RAE in precision shooting events...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32093239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041365 |
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author | Mon-López, Daniel Tejero-González, Carlos M. de la Rubia Riaza, Alfonso Calvo, Jorge Lorenzo |
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description | Background: The sport overrepresentation of early-born athletes within a selection year is called relative age effect (RAE). Moreover, gender performance differences depend on the sport. The main objectives of the study were to compare performances between gender and RAE in precision shooting events. Method: The results of 704 shooters who participated in the most recent World Shooting Championship were compared. Performance was analysed by event (rifle and pistol), gender and category (junior and senior), together with RAE and six ranges of ranking positions. Results: The results of the study indicated that men scored higher than women in pistol events and that no performance differences were found in rifle events when the whole group was compared. According to the birth trimester, no significant differences were found in the participant’s distribution, nor in performance in any case. Conclusions: The main conclusions of the study are: (1) the men’s pistol performance is better than the women’s even though RAE is not associated to the shooting score in any case; (2) men and women performed equally in the general analysis, but their performances were different depending on category and event with no RAE influence. |
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spelling | pubmed-70684182020-03-19 Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis Mon-López, Daniel Tejero-González, Carlos M. de la Rubia Riaza, Alfonso Calvo, Jorge Lorenzo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: The sport overrepresentation of early-born athletes within a selection year is called relative age effect (RAE). Moreover, gender performance differences depend on the sport. The main objectives of the study were to compare performances between gender and RAE in precision shooting events. Method: The results of 704 shooters who participated in the most recent World Shooting Championship were compared. Performance was analysed by event (rifle and pistol), gender and category (junior and senior), together with RAE and six ranges of ranking positions. Results: The results of the study indicated that men scored higher than women in pistol events and that no performance differences were found in rifle events when the whole group was compared. According to the birth trimester, no significant differences were found in the participant’s distribution, nor in performance in any case. Conclusions: The main conclusions of the study are: (1) the men’s pistol performance is better than the women’s even though RAE is not associated to the shooting score in any case; (2) men and women performed equally in the general analysis, but their performances were different depending on category and event with no RAE influence. MDPI 2020-02-20 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7068418/ /pubmed/32093239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041365 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mon-López, Daniel Tejero-González, Carlos M. de la Rubia Riaza, Alfonso Calvo, Jorge Lorenzo Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis |
title | Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis |
title_full | Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis |
title_fullStr | Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis |
title_short | Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis |
title_sort | pistol and rifle performance: gender and relative age effect analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32093239 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041365 |
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