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The purpose of this qualitative study of coach-athlete relationships was to utilise perspectives and experiences of four well-known male coaches and one male Olympic medalist from each of the following successful individual sports in Hungary: kayaking, swimming and wrestling. Using relationship constructs of Closeness, Co-orientation and Complementarity, it seems that in coach-athlete relationships are based more on the characteristics and needs of the individual athlete than the characteristics of the given sport discipline.
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Trzaskoma-Bicsérdy et al. (2007) studied this question.
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