European normative values for physical fitness in children and adolescents aged 9–17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries

GR Tomkinson, KD Carver, F Atkinson… - British journal of sports …, 2018 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To develop sex-specific and age-specific normative values for the nine Eurofit
tests in European children and adolescents aged 9–17 years. Methods A systematic review …

Normative health-related fitness values for children: analysis of 85347 test results on 9–17-year-old Australians since 1985

MJ Catley, GR Tomkinson - British journal of sports medicine, 2013 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives To provide sex-and age-specific normative values for health-related fitness of 9–
17-year-old Australians. Methods A systematic literature search was undertaken to identify …

European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 …

FB Ortega, B Leskošek, JJ Gil-Cosano… - British journal of sports …, 2023 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives (1) To develop reference values for health-related fitness in European children
and adolescents aged 6–18 years that are the foundation for the web-based, open-access …

Physical fitness in northern European youth: reference values from the Latvian Physical Health in Youth Study

M Sauka, IS Priedite, L Artjuhova… - … Journal of Public …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: Physical fitness has the potential to be used as a key health determinant in youth. The
aim of this study was to establish age-and sex-stratified reference values for health-related …

Physical fitness levels among European adolescents: the HELENA study

FB Ortega, EG Artero, JR Ruiz… - British journal of sports …, 2011 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To report sex-and age-specific physical fitness levels in European adolescents.
Methods A sample of 3428 adolescents (1845 girls) aged 12.5–17.49 years from 10 …

Physical fitness reference standards in European children: the IDEFICS study

D Miguel-Etayo, L Gracia-Marco, FB Ortega… - International journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
Results: Our results show that boys performed better than girls in speed, lower-and upper-
limb strength and cardiorespiratory fitness, and girls performed better in balance and …

Physical fitness percentiles for Portuguese children and adolescents aged 10–18 years

R Santos, J Mota, DA Santos, AM Silva… - Journal of Sports …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to produce age-and sex-specific physical fitness reference data for
Portuguese youth; to report the prevalence of youth in the healthy zone of physical fitness …

Physical fitness reference standards for preschool children: The PREFIT project

C Cadenas-Sanchez, T Intemann, I Labayen… - Journal of science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives Reference values are necessary for classifying children, for health screening,
and for early prevention as many non-communicable diseases aggravate during growth and …

Physical fitness percentiles of German children aged 9–12 years: findings from a longitudinal study

K Golle, T Muehlbauer, D Wick, U Granacher - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Generating percentile values is helpful for the identification of children with
specific fitness characteristics (ie, low or high fitness level) to set appropriate fitness goals …

Physical fitness testing of children: a European perspective

HCG Kemper, W Van Mechelen - Pediatric exercise …, 1996 - journals.humankinetics.com
The purpose of this article is to clarify the scientific basis of physical fitness assessment in
children and to review the European efforts to develop a EUROFIT fitness test battery for the …