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.”
According to Dunman, when it comes to adult athletes ...
birth month is a relatively unimportant component irth month is only one of the key ingredients almost half the 1,300 athletes employed by UK Sport were born in November and October getting sufficient vitamin D is unimportant