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
 
 
Past Winners
 
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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
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