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Os melhores atletas nos escalões de formação serão igualmente os melhores atletas no escalão sénior? Análise centrada nos rankings femininos das diferentes disciplinas do Atletismo ao longo das últimas duas décadas em Portugal

2004; Volume: 2004; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5628/rpcd.04.01.17

2182-0317

Nélson Brito, António Manuel Fonseca, Ramiro José Rolim Marques,

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Will best athletes as youngsters be equally best as adults?Actually, children and youngsters formal sports participation within Sports Federations is pushed towards a "single" reference: victory or sports success.Though, will it be that the success obtained in young ages will result in success in the adult age?Retrospective and forecasting studies in this domain are scarce, and in Portugal non-existent.Therefore, the main purpose of this paper was to study, retrospectively, women's career in the top five (Portuguese rankings), in the junior stage (under 13, 15 and 17 years old), between 1986 and 1990.A descriptive and retrospective analysis was conducted on three hundred and twenty-nine athletes till the senior stage.Main results suggest that a lot of the investment done has not been translated in sucess, at least till now.Only a small number of young athletes continued their sport career to the senior stage keeping up with the best ranked ones.The lower the age, the lower is the likelihood of confirming in the senior years the success obtained in the formative stage.