Defining elite athletes: Issues in the study of expert performance in sport psychology

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Defining Training and Performance Caliber: A Participant Classification Framework. (2022, background): “(2) Finalist (top 8) at events continental-level international events.”
The Mental Health of Elite Athletes: A Narrative Systematic Review (2016, background): “While the included studies focused specifically on elite-level competition at the national or international level, differences between the included sports in terms of training, remuneration, media pressure and other salient variables must be considered [89].”
Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect (2017, background): “[48] propose an equation for classifying athletes’ along a continuum of ‘eliteness’.”
Talent development in sport: A critical review of pathways to expert performance (2016, methodology): “Sport studies have used different and inconsistent criteria to define what is an expert athlete.(15,27,35,93,97,99) The expert-novice approach, also known as ‘the relative approach’(100) is the one most typically employed by researchers.”
Risk and protective factors for mental health in elite athletes: a scoping review (2019, background): “This is a common difficulty in sports research because elite athletes can be further categorized into world-class elite, successful elite, competitive elite, and sub-elite (Swann et al., 2015).”