Relative Age Effect in Masters Sports: Replication and Extension

Authors

Nikola Medic, Edith Cowan University
Janet Starkes
Patricia Weir
Bradley Young
J. Robert Grove

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science

RAS ID

8015

Comments

Medic, N., Starkes, J. L., Weir, P. L., Young, B. W., & Grove, J. R. (2009). Relative Age Effect in Masters Sports: Replication and Extension. Available here

Abstract

Method Data Collection On receiving approval from die institutional review board, data were collected from archived records on die official Internet site for die 2005 World Masters Games, held in Edmonton, Canada (World Masters Games, 2005) . Because participation entry lists were unavailable, we extracted data from official results by manually eliminating each participant whose name appeared more man once.