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SUBMITTER: Tsukahara Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552674 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsukahara Yuka Y Torii Suguru S Yamasawa Fumihiro F Iwamoto Jun J Otsuka Takanobu T Goto Hideyuki H Kusakabe Torao T Matsumoto Hideo H Akama Takao T
Sports (Basel, Switzerland) 20200820 9
Many elite female athletes struggle to maintain performance while transitioning from high school to university-level (senior) sports. This study explores factors of body composition that influenced performance in elite junior female track and field athletes transitioning to the senior division. Forty-two elite female track and field athletes, ranked among the top 100 in Japan, were enrolled in this study. Whole-body mode dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans were performed during the post-seaso ...[more]