We are inviting applications for the Sports Travel Awards for postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students to attend an international conference of their choice between July 2022 and April 2023. Two prizes of 800 CHF each will be awarded to one postdoctoral researcher and one Ph.D. student.

The awardee will be determined by the award committee.

Qualified candidates must meet the following criteria:

• Postdoctoral researchers (within three years of receiving their Ph.D.) or currently enrolled Ph.D. students, undertaking sports-related research.
• Present their own original work as first authors as a poster or oral presentation at the conference at which the travel award application will be made.

Applicants are required to submit the following documents (the entire application package should be submitted as a single PDF file):

1. Cover letter that outlines current and future work and why the applicant wishes to have the support of Sports (2 pages maximum);
2. Current CV, including a complete list of education, publications, and presentations (<10 pages);
3. The conference to be attended, a copy of the abstract and acceptance letter, or the anticipated decision date;
4. A letter of recommendation from a supervising mentor, research director, or Department Chair (1 page).

Winners are required to send a brief report of their participation after the congress.

Applicants are not required to have a prior submission or publication in Sports. Any questions regarding the Travel Awards can be directed to [email protected]

Please email your PDF applications to [email protected] by 10 April 2022. The winner will be announced in May 2022.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Sports 2020 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Sports from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. Three research articles will receive the award. We hope these awards will encourage the publication of other high-quality papers in the journal. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee, and the winners will be announced in March 2022.

Eligibility for the awards:

– Papers published in Sports from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection criteria:

The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Relevance to the journal’s field;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2021.

Prizes:

– First award (one research article): 500 CHF;
– Second award (one research article): 300 CHF;
– Third award (one research article): 100 CHF.

Additionally, each winner will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Sports in 2022.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2022.

Kind regards,
Sports Editorial Office

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,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Sports 2019 Best Paper Awards. All the papers published in Sports in 2019 were considered for the awards. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers have been selected.

First Award Winner: (CHF 500 + one free publication)
Rate of Force Development and Muscle Architecture after Fast and Slow Velocity Eccentric Training
Angeliki-Nikoletta Stasinaki, Nikolaos Zaras, Spyridon Methenitis, Gregory Bogdanis and Gerasimos Terzis
doi: 10.3390/sports7020041

Second Award Winners: (CHF 300 + one free publication)
The Magical Horizontal Force Muscle? A Preliminary Study Examining the “Force-Vector” Theory
David A. Fitzpatrick, Giuseppe Cimadoro and Daniel J. Cleather
doi: 10.3390/sports7020030

Third Award Winners: (CHF 100 + one free publication)
Hamstring-to-Quadriceps Ratio in Female Athletes with a Previous Hamstring Injury, Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, and Controls
Eleftherios Kellis, Nikiforos Galanis and Nikolaos Kofotolis
doi: 10.3390/sports7100214

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Sports 2019 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Sports.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Sports 2018 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2018 in Sports were considered for the awards. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers have been selected.

First Award Winner: (CHF 300 + one free publication)

The Three-Month Effects of a Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition, Blood Parameters, and Performance Metrics in CrossFit Trainees: A Pilot Study (10.3390/sports6010001)
By Wesley C. Kephart, Coree D. Pledge, Paul A. Roberson, Petey W. Mumford, Matthew A. Romero, Christopher B. Mobley, Jeffrey S. Martin, Kaelin C. Young, Ryan P. Lowery, Jacob M. Wilson, Kevin W. Huggins and Michael D. Roberts.

Second Award Winners: (CHF 200 + one free publication)

High-Intensity Functional Training (HIFT): Definition and Research Implications for Improved Fitness (10.3390/sports6030076)
By Yuri Feito, Katie M. Heinrich, Scotty J. Butcher and Walker S. Carlos Poston.

Cancer and Exercise: Warburg Hypothesis, Tumour Metabolism and High-Intensity Anaerobic Exercise (10.3390/sports6010010)
By Peter Hofmann.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Sports 2018 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Sports.

Kind regards,
Sports Editorial Office

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