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Becoming and being a Master's athlete

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-24, 18:25 authored by Palmer, C, Nicholas HookwayNicholas Hookway, Casey MainsbridgeCasey Mainsbridge, Anthea Vreugdenhil
This paper explores the experiences of participation in the Australian Master’s Games. Drawing on preliminary research on the 2017 event, the paper documents and analyses the ways in which Master’s athletes define and understand their social and sporting identities. As well as addressing low physical activity engagement in older life through an ‘active ageing’ lens, training for and competing in the Master’s Games offers a key source of identity-making among participants that shapes their social world more broadly.

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Publication title

ISSA 2018 Book of Abstracts, World Congress for the Sociology of Sport

Pagination

77

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

International Sociology of Sport Association

Place of publication

Lausanne, Switzerland

Event title

2018 World Congress for the Sociology of Sport

Event Venue

Lausanne, Switzerland

Date of Event (Start Date)

2018-06-05

Date of Event (End Date)

2018-06-08

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  • Restricted

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