Youth Track and Field Throwing Athlete Performance Data, 468 Observations

A retrospective analysis of 468 observations from 379 junior throwing athletes aged 13–19 years, collected by Jannik Severin. The data examines associations between maturity offset and performance in a standardized motor test battery, including sprints, jumps, and power-oriented throwing tests. The dataset was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between biological maturity and throwing performance based on maturity offset and test scores.
• Investigating potential bias in talent identification by analyzing performance differences linked to maturity offset.
• Developing age-adjusted performance benchmarks for youth throwers using the described test battery results.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 468 observations from 379 athletes, with separate counts for female (n=252) and male (n=216) participants.
• Provides specific effect sizes, such as a 12.8% performance increase in the backward overhead shot throw associated with a one-year higher maturity offset.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect temporal and demographic bias inherent to the specific study's cohort of youth track and field athletes.

Provenance

Source

Jannik Severin via figshare

Collection Method

Retrospective data analysis from a study on junior throwing athletes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 10:58:22; freshness should be verified.