The relationship between the relative age effect and performance among athletes in World Handball Championships

• Alfonso de la Rubia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alfonso de la Rubia, Christian Thue Bjørndal, Sergio Maroto-Izquierdo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sports, Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5249-1399

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• Christian Thue Bjørndal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alfonso de la Rubia, Christian Thue Bjørndal, Sergio Maroto-Izquierdo

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christian.bjorndal@nih.no

  Affiliation Department of Coaching and Psychology, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8544-9816

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• Joaquín Sánchez-Molina ,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Universidad Europea, Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain

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• José María Yagüe ,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Universidad de León, León, Spain

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• Jorge Lorenzo Calvo ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Sports, Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Sergio Maroto-Izquierdo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alfonso de la Rubia, Christian Thue Bjørndal, Sergio Maroto-Izquierdo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Universidad de León, León, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6696-5636

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