SportLogia Journal

SportLogia
Vol. 17, Issue 1, december 2021.

 

CHRONOLOGICAL AGE OF ALPINE SKI MEDAL WINNERS IN THE 2015-2018 OLYMPIC CYCLE

 

Zvezdan Savić¹, Nikola Stojanović¹, Miloš Tomić² & Đorđe Savić^3
1Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Niš, Serbia
²Ski association of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
³Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

 Short scientific paper
 doi: 10.5550/sgia.211701.en.ssts
 UDC:796.926’’2015/2018’’

 

Abstract

Personal motivation, as well as engagement in alpine skiing, brought the authors to inspect the differences in average chronological age of alpine skiers, and to present the results to the professional public, in order to improve planning and programming of the training process. The paper analyzed the average chronological age of medal winning professional alpine skiers in the World Cups in the 2015-2018 Olympic cycle. The following alpine disciplines were analyzed: Slalom (SL), Giant Slalom (GS), Super-G (SG), Downhill (DH) and Alpine Combination (AC). The obtained results indicate that there was a significant difference in the average chronological age between male and female competitors. The results of the present study show that there were differences in GS, SG, DH, and AC, where male skiers are on average older than female skiers. Conversely, there was no significant difference between male and female skiers in SL. The results of this study could aid coaches and experts in future years of individual management of sports careers of male and female skiers.

Key words: alpine skiers, age, competitions, alpine disciplines.

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To cite this article: 
Savić, Z., Stojanović, N., Tomić, M.,& Savić, Đ. (2021). Chronological age of alpine ski medal winners in the 2015-2018 Olympic cycle . Sportlogia, 17(1), 73-83. https://doi.org/10.5550/sgia.211701.en.ssts

 

 

Received: 21.10.2021.
Approved: 30.11.2021.

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Ski Association of Serbia
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