Sports 2022, 10(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/sports10010007 - 04 Jan 2022
Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Sports 2019 Best Paper Awards. All the papers published in Sports in 2019 were considered for the awards. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers have been selected.
First Award Winner: (CHF 500 + one free publication)
Rate of Force Development and Muscle Architecture after Fast and Slow Velocity Eccentric Training
Angeliki-Nikoletta Stasinaki, Nikolaos Zaras, Spyridon Methenitis, Gregory Bogdanis and Gerasimos Terzis
doi: 10.3390/sports7020041
Second Award Winners: (CHF 300 + one free publication)
The Magical Horizontal Force Muscle? A Preliminary Study Examining the “Force-Vector” Theory
David A. Fitzpatrick, Giuseppe Cimadoro and Daniel J. Cleather
doi: 10.3390/sports7020030
Third Award Winners: (CHF 100 + one free publication)
Hamstring-to-Quadriceps Ratio in Female Athletes with a Previous Hamstring Injury, Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, and Controls
Eleftherios Kellis, Nikiforos Galanis and Nikolaos Kofotolis
doi: 10.3390/sports7100214
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Sports 2019 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Sports.
Sports 2019 Best Paper Award
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Sports will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Training Monitoring in Sports: It Is Time to Embrace Cognitive Demand
Sports 2022, 10(4), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/sports10040056 - 08 Apr 2022
Winner
Antonio Tessitore
Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome ‘Foro Italico’, 00135 Rome, Italy
Brad J. Schoenfeld
Department of Health Sciences, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468, USA
Winner
Michael D. Roberts
1. School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
2. Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine-Auburn Campus, Auburn, AL 36832, USA
Monika Haga
Department of Teacher Education, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Magnus K. Karlsson
Department of Physiology and Clinical Sciences, Skane University Hospital, Lund University, SE-205 02 Malmo, Sweden
Award Committee
Ms. Elsa Qiu
Chairman
MPDI Haidian
Winner
Angeliki-Nikoletta Stasinaki
Sports Performance Laboratory, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Daphne, Athens 17237, Greece
Daniel J. Cleather
Research conducted at School of Sport, Health and Applied Science, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham TW1 4SX, UK
Eleftherios Kellis
Laboratory of Neuromechanics, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at Serres, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 62100 Thessaloniki, Greece
Winner
Michael D. Roberts
1. School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
2. Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Auburn, AL 36830, USA
Yuri Feito
Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA
Peter Hofmann
Institute of Sports Sciences, Exercise Physiology, Training & Training Therapy Research Group, University of Graz, Max Mell Allee 11, Graz 8010, Austria
