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Link Between Sport and Life Expectancy

Published: 2021-11-15 - Updated: 2022-01-24

Author: Compare the Market | Contact: comparethemarket.com.au

Peer-Reviewed Publication: N/A

Synopsis: Study reveals in sport, boxers have the shortest life expectancy, where all other sports in the study had a life expectancy ranging from the mid-70s to early 80s, the life expectancy of a boxer was just 67.7 years of age. New research by Compare the Market has uncovered links between sport and life expectancy, with boxers living nearly five years less on average. Head trauma could be linked to elite athlete boxer deaths in about 1 in 5 of cases. Athletes from every other discipline considered saw an extended life span, with tennis players enjoying the best increase in life expectancy, living over seven years more on average.

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Boxers face a much shorter life than other sportspeople, according to new research by Compare the Market looking at links between sport, head trauma, and life expectancy. Collating data on 1,000 professional athletes across 10 different sports, the Australian company determined the average life expectancy of each discipline and compared it against the global life expectancy average.

Life Expectancy of Elite Athletes in Sport

Boxers had the shortest life expectancy by a considerable margin. Where all other sports in the study had a life expectancy ranging from the mid-70s to early 80s, the life expectancy of a boxer was just 67.7 years of age. The sport with the longest life expectancy was tennis (80.4). Not only does it have the lowest, but boxing is the only sport in the study that shortens a person's life span rather than lengthening it. When you compare it to the average person's life expectancy (72.6 years), professional boxers lose almost 5 years. Tennis, on the other hand, tends to extend one's life by more than 7 years. As well as comparing life expectancy data, Compare the Market also scrutinized each athlete's cause of death to determine whether there was a link to head trauma (presumably from their professional career in sport). Like with the life expectancy data, both boxing and football (soccer) returned the most alarming results. There are studies that suggest as many as 22.9% of the professional boxers considered had a cause of death that could be linked to head trauma. This figure was slightly lower for football (17.2%), but still considerably higher than the other sports listed which all returned a result lower than 10%.

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Table Showing Link Between Head Trauma and Cause Of Death

"When it comes to boxing, it's likely that this data reflects an effect of the accumulation of multiple bodily injuries, particularly impacts to the brain, during competitive boxing over their lifetime," Professor Pearce explained. "There's no doubt that repetitive head knocks are associated with cognitive impairment, early onset dementia, and therefore contributing to reduced life expectancy."

Note on Methodology

We identified 100 elite athletes from each of the ten selected sports to determine average life expectancy. The athlete must have competed at the elite level between 1949 - 1952 and been born between 1908 - 1931. These parameters ensured that the data collected was based on one generation of athletes only and that even the youngest of this generation had the time to live to the age of 90 by 2021. The study did not consider what other factors could be influencing life expectancy results in athletes. The study did not include new and emerging sports such as parkour and skateboarding. Link Between Sport and Life Expectancy | Compare the Market (comparethemarket.com.au). Disabled World makes no warranties or representations in connection therewith. Content may have been edited for style, clarity or length.

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