J 2022

Relative age effect in elite swimmers in U14 Czech Championship

BOZDĚCH, Michal, Adrián AGRICOLA, Adam KŘEHKÝ, Petr SCHLEGEL, Jiří ZHÁNĚL et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Relative age effect in elite swimmers in U14 Czech Championship

Autoři

BOZDĚCH, Michal (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Adrián AGRICOLA (703 Slovensko), Adam KŘEHKÝ, Petr SCHLEGEL a Jiří ZHÁNĚL (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

Studia Sportiva, Masaryk University Faculty of Sports Studies, 2022, 1802-7679

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

30306 Sport and fitness sciences

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14510/22:00126346

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sportovních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

birthdate; performance; sport; swimming; sex; adolescence

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 23. 3. 2023 15:03, Mgr. Pavlína Roučová, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

PUrPoSEThe issue of the Relative Age Effect (RAE) has been studied in the theory of sports for more than 30 years. Most studies concentrate on team sports, while the area of some individual sports like swimming can be considered still underexplored. MEthoDS The aim of our study was to verify the RAE in young elite swimmers (n = 198) who participa-ted in Czech Republic U14 Championship (1) in male and female samples (2) according to swimming disciplines and distances (3) and performance (times in individual disciplines) between individual quartiles / semesters of birth. The analysis was performed with the use of adequate statistical (chi--square test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Mann-Whitney U test) and effect size (effect size w index, eta-square test, effect size r index) tests. rESUltS The results showed a different intensity of RAE sex-differences (male: w = 0.033; female: w = 0.006). In the division by the swimming disciplines and swimming distances, statistically significant values with large effect size were found in males in 50 m freestyle, 200 m individual medley, 100 m butterfly and 200 m butterfly. However, this did not apply for girls. Analysis of differences in performance showed a significant difference between the dependent variables (sex, distance, discipline) by different independent variables of quartile / semester of birth with large effect size only in cases of male 100 m breaststroke and female 200 m individual medley. ConClUSIonSThe issue of RAE should be circulated among the coaches working with youth, athletes, sports organizations, but also parents of athletes in order to avoid the termination of actively spent time or drop-outs.