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Competitive Athletes

"Competitive Athlete" is a formal construct in sports medicine denoting an individual who participates in organized, intense physical training and structured competition at regional, national, or international levels, thereby distinguishing them from recreational exercisers by the systematicity, intensity, and competitive framework governing their athletic engagement.

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Biomechanical Measures of Neuromuscular Control and Valgus Loading of the Knee Predict Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk in Female Athletes: A Prospective Study

Timothy E. Hewett, Gregory D. Myer, Kevin R. Ford et al. · The American Journal of Sports Medicine · 2005 · 3.5K citations

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Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession

Paúl Krugman · Foreign Affairs · 1994 · 2.1K citations

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Sudden Deaths in Young Competitive Athletes

Barry J. Maron, Joseph J. Doerer, Tammy S. Haas et al. · Circulation · 2009 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AS AN INDEX OF HEART ATTACK RISK IN COLLEGE ALUMNI1

Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Alvin L. Wing, Robert T. Hyde · American Journal of Epidemiology · 1978 · 2K citations

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Sudden Death in Young Competitive Athletes

Barry J. Maron · JAMA · 1996 · 1.7K citations

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Authors

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  1. GD
    Gregory D. Myer

    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, United States

    108 publications · 19.2K citations

    61

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  2. TE
    Timothy E. Hewett

    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, United States

    109 publications · 24.2K citations

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  3. KR
    Kevin R. Ford

    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, United States

    72 publications · 17.5K citations

    50

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  4. BJ
    Barry J. Maron

    Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, United States

    62 publications · 13.5K citations

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  5. AP
    Antonio Pelliccia

    University of Padua, Italy

    75 publications · 12.6K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

    Oslo, Norway

    74 h-index

    502 publications

    45.1K citations

  2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    70 h-index

    482 publications

    44.1K citations

  3. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Cincinnati, United States

    67 h-index

    489 publications

    83.4K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    63 h-index

    585 publications

    57.4K citations

  5. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    63 h-index

    337 publications

    35.1K citations

  6. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    59 h-index

    304 publications

    38.9K citations

  7. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    57 h-index

    215 publications

    20.4K citations

  8. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    56 h-index

    327 publications

    23.7K citations

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  1. The American Journal of Sports Medicine

    610 publications · 84.3K citations

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  2. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

    MSSE · 571 publications · 50.4K citations

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  3. British Journal of Sports Medicine

    BJSM · 487 publications · 45.1K citations

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  4. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

    JSCR · 807 publications · 43.4K citations

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  5. PubMed

    Repository · 1.1K publications · 47.8K citations

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