Abstract
Home advantage (HA) is a well-documented phenomenon in (professional) team sports. However, there is also a growing body of evidence that in individual sports home athletes have an advantage. I define HA as ‘the performance advantage of an athlete, team, or country when they compete at a home ground compared to their performance under similar conditions at an away ground’. In this chapter, I review some of this evidence and will present results of its relevance in one particular sport: speedskating.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Home advantage in sport causes and the effect on performance |
| Editors | M.A. Gómez-Ruano, R. Pollard, C. Lago-Peñas |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 25 |
| Pages | 251-259 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003081456 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367533298, 9780367533267 |
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| Publication status | Published - 28-Oct-2021 |