What?
What prevents a young talent to become a champion? And what can make it easier?
Athletes’ performance progression
Relative Age Effect
What? The relative age effect is a phenomenon in which young born close to a critical age cut-off period may have an advantage in both athletic and academic endeavours. Individuals born at the beginning of the calendar year (e.g. in January) are in fact older than those born at the end of the calendar year…
Athletes’ career trajectories
What? In this project we aim to track the performance trajectories of track and field athletes to identify the possible determinants of success. So far we tracked the performance trajectories of more than ten thousands track and field athletes at national and world class level and we realized that being a top-level at a young…
