UK Sport could not say if a majority of the 1,300 athletes it gives money to were born in November and October. Natalie Dunman, its head of performance, said that the differences shown in the new study were true for teenagers in junior-level competitions, but that the differences disappear before athletes were in adult competitions. She said: “With adult athletes, there are many factors that make a champion and we don’t think that month of birth is one of the key ingredients.”
Where does Dunamn believe the athletic abilities of adults are derived from?
A combination of multiple different factors The month in which they were born in The opportunities offered by UK Sport during their youth Primarily from their innate genetics