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Article 2025

Offensive Players vs Defensive Players: A Technical and Tactical Analysis of Table Tennis Matches

Authors / editors: Andreas Nikolakakis, Evangelos Bebetsos, Georgios Chatzopoulos

Published in: Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine

The purpose of the present study was to record and compare the techniques and tactics of the serve, reception, and third hit between offensive and defensive male players at an elite level. The research sample consists of a total of 42 individual matches (3,174) from the last fo…

DOI: 10.18276/cej.2025.2-01 · ISSN: 2300-9705

Article 2023

Assessment of Change of Direction and Agility. Running and Dribbling among Soccer, Basketball and Handball Players: The Concept of “Agility deficit”

Authors / editors: Evangelos Bekris, Aristotelis Gioldasis, Emmanouil Zacharakis, Konstantinos Noutsos, Panagiotis Meletakos, Athanasia Smirniotou

Published in: Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine

The primary objective of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of change of direction (COD) and agility among players engaged in soccer, basketball, and handball. Additionally, the researchers introduced the novel concept of “Agility deficit”, aimed at evaluating distin…

DOI: 10.18276/cej.2023.4-06 · ISSN: 2300-9705

Article 2021

Relative Age Effect: A Systematic Discrimination against Biologically Younger Athletes

Authors / editors: Aristotelis Gioldasis, Evangelos Bekris, Athanasia Smirniotou

Published in: Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine

Physical differences associated with birth-date among athletes of the same selection year have been described as the Relative Age Effect (RAE). The aim of this study was to examine whether RAE still exists in soccer and running sport disciplines as well as to evaluate its progres…

DOI: 10.18276/cej.2021.3-03 · ISSN: 2300-9705