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Sports Performance

Faster, higher, stronger, older: Relative age effects are most influential during the youngest age grade of track and field athletics in the United Kingdom

Philip E. KearneyPhysical Education & Sport Sciences Department, University of Limerick, Limerick, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Philip R. HayesDepartment of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4197-2848
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Alan NevillInstitute of Sport & Human Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UKORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-0506-3652
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Pages 2282-2288 | Accepted 28 Feb 2018, Published online: 07 Mar 2018

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