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Congress facts

• Total number of congress participants: 953
• Total number of participating countries: 45
• Plenary sessions
• Invited symposia
• Oral presentations
• Poster presentations

Scientific highlights – plenary sessions

JYVÄSKYLÄ 2000

• Genetics: Challenges for exercise and training
• Physical activity promotion: Lessons of the past for guidance in the future
• Exercise: From muscle to brain or vice versa: Visions of the future - 2000 and beyond
• Significance of exercise and sport in the third millennium

ECSS Young Investigators Award 2000

1st Rank

Oral presentation

• Paul Andrew Robert (GBR)

Poster presentation

• Markus Gruber (GER)

Congress venue

The 5th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science – ECSS Jyväskylä 2000 was held in the congress and trade centre Jyväskylä Paviljonki. Brand new facilities here provided room for more than eight parallel sessions and smaller workshops. A poster exhibition, a technical exhibition and social program activities such as the opening and closing ceremonies were also staged in this building.