Impact of COVID-19-Related Sports Activity Disruptions on the Physical Fitness of Japanese Adolescent Athletes

• Main Authors: Hiromune Obayashi (Author), Yasunari Ikuta (Author), Naoki Nakashima (Author), Ryoko Yamamoto (Author), Hironori Fujishita (Author), Koki Fukuhara (Author), Tetsuhiko Sakamitsu (Author), Kai Ushio (Author), Hiroaki Kimura (Author), Nobuo Adachi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We assessed whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-related disruptions impacted the physical fitness of adolescent athletes. We reviewed the age-, sex-, and sports category-matched data of 78 adolescent athletes (divided into two groups: 2019 group = 37; 2020 group = 41) from the c...