Mixed-gender small-sided recreational team handball games in middle-aged and elderly are physiologically more demanding for women than men

• Ivone Carneiro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, CIDESD, University of Maia, Maia, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5558-1082

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• Peter Krustrup,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, SDU Sport and Health Sciences Cluster (SHSC), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Shanghai University of Sport (SUS), Shanghai, China

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• Carlo Castagna,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, SDU Sport and Health Sciences Cluster (SHSC), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, School of Exercise and Health Sciences, Carlo Bo Urbino University, Urbino, Italy

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• Rita Pereira,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Metabolism and Exercise (LaMetEx), Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure (CIAFEL), Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, University of Maia, Maia, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8284-8237

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• Susana Póvoas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scpovoas@gmail.com

  Affiliations Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, CIDESD, University of Maia, Maia, Portugal, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, SDU Sport and Health Sciences Cluster (SHSC), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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