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(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 06, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- Indiana University researchers compared the performance of elite track and field athletes younger than 20 and those older than 20 and found that only a minority of athletes who were younger than 20 saw similar success as senior athletes.
The scientists believe that physical maturation is behind the disparity in the age and performance of athletes, with athletes who mature early reaping the benefits early, seeing their best times, jumps and throws at a younger age than Olympians, many of whom mature later.
According to Robert Chapman, assistant professor in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington and a former cross country coach at IU, you see that in a lot of sports."Elite performers in senior sports tend to be the ones who mature later. But it`s hard to measure, particularly in men, the rate at which they mature. I had a very successful runner grow 4 inches in college while he ran for me," Chapman said.
The study, led by Joshua Foss, a graduate student in exercise physiology and co-authored by Chapman, examined the career performances of 65 male finalists and 64 female finalists of the 2000 Junior World Championships and a comparable number of finalists at the 2000 Olympics.
Those that performed best were senior athletes at a significantly later age than their junior counterparts in all four of the men`s event groups and three out of the four womenÂ’s event groups.
Compared to the star junior athletes, the senior athletes showed a significantly greater percentage of improvement in lifetime best performance statistics compared to their best performances as junior athletes in six out of eight groups.
23.6 percent of the junior athletes studied went on to medal in the Olympics later in their careers.
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