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Male and female Olympic shooters perform equally well when targets are stationary, though men have the edge for moving targets, per analysis of 2021 Tokyo Olympics which trialed mixed-gender events

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Male and female Olympic shooters perform equally well when targets are stationary, though men have the edge for moving targets, per analysis of 2021 Tokyo Olympics which trialed mixed-gender events

image: Mixed trap event gold medallists of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics view more 

Credit: Alberto Fernandez, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Male and female Olympic shooters perform equally well when targets are stationary, though men have the edge for moving targets, per analysis of 2021 Tokyo Olympics which trialed mixed-gender events.

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291017

Article Title: Do women and men compete equally on a level playing field? An empirical investigation into the 2021 Olympic shooting competitions

Author Countries: USA, Spain

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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