Malmö University Publications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Changes in Athletic Performance in Children Attending a Secondary School with a Physical Activity Profile
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Sport Sciences (IDV).
Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden; Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden; Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden.
Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences and Orthopaedics, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0616-5928
Show others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Sports, E-ISSN 2075-4663, Vol. 10, no 5, p. 71-71Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The longitudinal and multidisciplinary research project Malmö Youth Sport Study measured the sports results achieved by two cohorts of pupils using a variable named ACHIEVE, dividing the pupils into three categories (an elite group competing at the national or international level, a group competing at the district level, and a third group either not competing at all or below district level). This was assessed three and six years after baseline at age 13. An additional hypothetical measure, based on information from the athletes’ trainers, predicted the category the pupils were expected to belong to after twelve years (age 25). Social variables related to the ACHIEVE variable are sex, socio-economic position of the parents, ethnicity, completed secondary sports school, sports capital, and quartile of birth. After three years, 28% of the pupils belonged to the elite group and after six years, 26%. Thirty-two and 48%, respectively, had abandoned their elite efforts. The elite group remained fairly stable over time but fewer girls than boys advanced to the elite group. The pupils at the school have a homogenous middle-class background. We found little evidence that socio-economic factors affected ACHIEVE. Nearly all parents had been engaged in sports, either competing or as coaches. On admission to the school, there was a pronounced relative age effect (RAE). This remained after three years as the age was significantly different between the three groups but was reduced after six years. According to the prognosis made by the coaches, the elite group would be considerably smaller when the subjects reached the age of 25. The RAE was again significant in the prognosis. A further follow-up when the subjects are 25 years old will reveal not only what proportion of subjects are actively competing, but also if they are engaged in recreational sports, to what extent the RAE is present, and how accurately coaches can predict success. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2022. Vol. 10, no 5, p. 71-71
Keywords [en]
sports school, talent identification, longitudinal, elite sports, multidisciplinary
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-53305DOI: 10.3390/sports10050071ISI: 000803612500001PubMedID: 35622480Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130142394OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-53305DiVA, id: diva2:1674086
Available from: 2022-06-21 Created: 2022-06-21 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(2117 kB)269 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 2117 kBChecksum SHA-512
5bea34030257282ff1aea64ec152f9ba39a697e13905a726eed24e1893c6d51cce8a8cd067fcc5dfed053abf8ac5e0c8fb12eb32728bbb1a83543b44dbb8013a
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMedScopus

Authority records

Peterson, Tomas

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Peterson, TomasKarlsson, Magnus K.
By organisation
Department of Sport Sciences (IDV)
In the same journal
Sports
Sport and Fitness Sciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 269 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 132 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf