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World Records in Half-Marathon Running by Sex and Age

Pantelis T. Nikolaidis, Stefania Di Gangi, and Beat Knechtle

, 2016 ; Nikolaidis, Onywera, & Knechtle, 2017 ). It has been shown that East African runners were the youngest and the fastest ( Aschmann et al., 2013 ; Knechtle, Nikolaidis, Onywera, et al., 2016 ). Their age is at (mean ±  SD ) 29.7 ± 4.0 years for Kenyan women, 28.9 ± 4.2 years for Kenyan men, 25

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Stereotype Threat in Sport: Recommendations for Applied Practice and Research

Daniel M. Smith and Sarah E. Martiny

ability in volleyball, field hockey, or sport in general. As mentioned in the introduction, beyond race and gender, many other groups may be stereotyped. Some stereotypes relate to athletes’ country or region of origin, for example, the superiority of East African runners ( Baker & Horton, 2003 ) and the