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#103 What Makes a Champion — Ian Renshaw & Keith Davids Review Gullich et al (2021)
# What Makes a Champion — Ian Renshaw & Keith Davids Review Gullich et al (2021) In this theory episode, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids dig into Gullich, McNamara, and Hambrick's 2021 meta-analysis "What Makes a Champion: Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance" — 51 studies, roughly 6,000 athletes, 15 countries, and a clear finding: world-class athletes specialised later, practised more broadly across other sports as children, and accumulated less total practice time in their main sport than national-level athletes who never quite made it…
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