BAĞIL YAŞIN YÜZME PERFORMANSINA ETKİSİ

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Düzgün M., Akkoç O., Göksu Ö. C.

SPORMETRE Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi, cilt.20, sa.1, ss.82-91, 2022 (TRDizin)

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Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the Relative Age Effect (RAE) of swimmers participating in competitions between 2018-2019 and 2020. A total of 4,298 (male=2,404 and female=1,894) licensed swimmers participated in the study. The birth age and gender of the swimmers and the 50 m freestyle swimming technique competition degrees (in seconds) swimming in the Olympic pool were examined. The swimmers have been categorised as quarterly year (QY) and half year (HY) depending on where their birth month landed through out the year. It covers the months of QY1 (January, February, March), QY2 (April, May, June), QY3 (July, August, September), QY4 (October, November, December) and HY1 (January, February, March, April, May, June), HY2 (July, August, September, October, November, December). According to these quarter and half periods, the swimming degrees and birth months of the swimmers were compared. The data analysis has been done by using the SPSS 22 Program. One-way variance analysis (One-Way ANOVA) for the analysis of the interpreter performance difference (One-Way ANOVA) and the detection of swimmers between the distribution of the birthdates were used to determine the chi-square (x2) test. The degree of significance p <0.05 has been adopted. It was found that those born in the first quarter and first semester of the year were more numerous in terms of percentage and frequency ratios than those born in the last quarter and last semester of the year. A statistically significant difference was found in all categories except master QY in male swimmers and in all categories except master HY in female swimmers (p=0.00). As a result, RAE were found in both sexes, especially in children and young swimmers. In the Master (40-44 years old) category, no RAE was detected. These results show that RAE is more effective at an early age. RAE should be taken into account at the stages of selection to the teams and in the competitions of children born in the same year.