Abnormal variations in china’ s elite sport performance under the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from world champions and world records (2020–2022)
Yuan Ding, Zhang Aowei · 2025
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Yuan Ding and Zhang Aowei study China's elite sports output under COVID-19 in a 2025 paper. The pandemic disrupted training and events worldwide, yet hard counts of its system-wide effect on China's top results were scarce. The team gathered data on Chinese world champions and world records from 2010 to 2024.
Treating 2020 to 2022 as the impact phase, they found a sharp drop in 2020 and an abnormal rebound in 2021. Core Olympic sports held steady under closed bubble training, while sports that depend on foreign events nearly halted. Women and para athletes proved more resilient, which the authors tie to targeted support.
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| CREATOR | Yuan Ding, Zhang Aowei |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |