Sprint and endurance power and ageing: an analysis of master athletic world records

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2009-02-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.1319PMID 18957366PMCID PMC2660943
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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