ECSS Virtual 2020

The European College of Sport Science (ECSS) is the leading association of sport scientists in Europe, and its main scientific event is the ECSS Annual Congress. The ECSS was founded in 1995, and the 1st ECSS Congress was held one year after that in Nice, France. Nowadays, the ECSS Congress is the biggest event in sport and exercise science in Europe with around 3 000 people participating every year. This year the Congress was planned to be held on 1-3 July 2020 in Seville, Spain. However, the ECSS Sevilla 2020 Congress was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and transformed to a special virtual congress. The Online ECSS Anniversary Congress was held on 28-30 October 2020, and it celebrated the 25th anniversary of the ECSS.

At this Congress I was accepted for an oral presentation at the parallel sessions to present the main findings from my PhD study on health-related physical fitness of young artistic gymnasts from the UK. Our presentation was part of the pre-recorded Oral presentations from the official scientific programme at the Online ECSS Anniversary Congress 2020. The abstract was published in the conference proceedings book of the 25th Anniversary Congress of the ECSS, and together with our presentation are both available for download on this page. After the Congress, our study was built upon further and the complete findings were published in the International Journal of Applied Exercise Physiology, Vol.10(1), 2021.