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These horizontally oriented sports displayed superior results compared with more vertically oriented and powerful sports such as beach volleyball, weightlifting, and ski jumping, both in men (from 2.9 \u00b1 4.7 to 15.6 \u00b1 2.9 cm; small to very large; possibly to most likely) and women (5.9 \u00b1 4.8 to 13.4 \u00b1 3.4 cm; large to very large; very likely to most likely), while endurance sports and precision sports were at the other end of the scale. Overall, the men jumped 33% higher than the women (10.3, \u00b10.6\u00a0cm; most likely; large).\n                    <jats:italic>\n                      <jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>\n                      :\n                    <\/jats:italic>\n                    This study provides practitioners and scientists with useful information regarding the variation in countermovement jump height among national-team athletes within and across sport disciplines.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1123\/ijspp.2019-0964","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,20]],"date-time":"2020-11-20T09:26:47Z","timestamp":1605864407000},"page":"184-189","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["Countermovement Jump Height in National-Team Athletes of Various Sports: A Framework for Practitioners and Scientists"],"prefix":"10.1123","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Thomas A.","family":"Haugen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Felix","family":"Breitsch\u00e4del","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"H\u00e5vard","family":"Wiig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stephen","family":"Seiler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"100","reference":[{"key":"r1","series-title":"Am Phys Educ Rev","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"188","DOI":"10.1080\/23267224.1921.10650486","article-title":"The physical test of man","volume":"26","author":"Sargent DA","year":"1921","unstructured":"Sargent DA. 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