Dear Authors,

We are pleased to announce the “Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Sports from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. After a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, four papers will receive the awards.

Selection Criteria:

The articles will be selected by the journal award committee according to the following criteria:

–– Originality and significance;
–– Citation, download, and view rates in 2019 and 2020;
–– Data Source: Web of Science and Database of MDPI.

Prizes:

The winners (corresponding authors) will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Sports after the normal peer-review procedure. Each winner will additionally receive a prize based on the award class:

–– First Award (one paper): 300 CHF;
–– Second Award (two papers): 200 CHF each;
–– The winners will be announced by 20 March 2021.

The winners will be announced by 20 March 2021.

Dear Colleagues,

After a thorough assessment of all applications by the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce that Ms. Pénélope Paradis-Deschênes and Dr. Ben Kirk are the winners of the Sports Travel Award 2020, and each will receive 800 Swiss Francs towards their travel expenses to attend an international conference in 2020.

Ms. Pénélope Paradis-Deschênes is a Ph.D. Candidate at University of Laval, Quebec, Canada. Her research focuses on the optimization of sport performance and physiological responses to exercise.

Dr. Ben Kirk received his Ph.D. at the Liverpool Hope University in 2019 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Melbourne. His research focuses on Geriatric Medicine, and the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases (osteoporosis, sarcopenia) via exercise and nutritional interventions. He is also investigating the effects of novel drug compounds on concomitant muscle and bone wasting (osteosarcopenia).

We would like to congratulate them on their excellent work and would further like to thank all applicants for their interesting and high-quality contributions. We also wish to thank the Scientific Committee members for their evaluation of the candidates.

Best regards,

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Eling D. de Bruin
Institute of Human Movement Sciences and Sport, IBWS ETH, HCP H 25.1,
Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland;
Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Dear Colleagues,

After a thorough assessment of all applications by the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Collings is the first winner of the Sports Travel Award 2018, and will receive 800 Swiss Francs towards his travel expenses to attend an international conference in 2018.

Dr. Paul Collings received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2015 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bradford Institute for Health Research. His research focuses on quantifying the levels and patterns of physical activity, sedentary time and sleep in population-based samples of adults and children, and further examines associations between movement behaviours with adiposity and cardiometabolic outcomes.

We would like to congratulate him on his excellent work and would further like to thank all applicants for their interesting and high quality contributions. We also wish to thank the Scientific Committee members for their evaluation of the candidates.

PD Dr. Eling Douwe de Bruin,
Editor-in-Chief

Institute of Human Movement Sciences and Sport, ETH Zürich, HIT J 32.3, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland