18 Feb 2019

Staged immediately prior to the Liebherr 2019 World Championships, organized in conjunction with the University of Pecs and the Hungarian Table Tennis Association, the 16th ITTF Sports Science Congress will be held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th April.

The final submission of abstracts has been extended; the deadline date is Friday 8th March.

by Ian Marshall, Editor

Following the motto “Multifunctional Table Tennis: From the Top Level to the Health Sport Concept”, a wide range of topics appears on the agenda.

Agenda

…………Age issues related to table tennis…………Biomechanics…………Children in table tennis…………Coaching and teaching…………Doping…………Equipment design…………Fitness testing…………History of table tennis…………Management…………Match analysis…………Medical aspects of table tennis…………Nutrition…………Physiology…………Players’ adaption to rule changes…………Psychology…………Racket design and performance…………Skills and skill analysis in table tennis…………Social science aspects…………Sociology/economics/development…………Stress…………Table tennis as health sport…………Training…………Training at school level…………Women in table tennis

Forms of presentations

…………Invited speakers…………Oral presentations…………Poster presentations

Congress Language

The official language of the Congress is English.

Congress Fees

Registration fee: € 220.00

The registration fee includes: participation at all the official organised events of the Congress (plenary lectures and sessions, banquet dinner); presentation possibility (oral or poster) and lunch on both days. Also, included is a Congress package with the Book of Abstracts, transport between the Congress venue and the Budapest airport or the Budapest Keleti Railway Station plus a visitor ticket for first three days of the Liebherr 2019 World Championships.

Congress Venue

Danubius Hotel Flamenco (4 star hotel), H-1113 Budapest, Tas vezér Str. 3-7.

Contact

Kindly send abstracts via email to David Paar. Email: [email protected]>

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