Marloes Ekkelboom wins 'Best Paper Award' at international conference

Marloes Ekkelboom, PhD student and staff member, was awarded the 'Best Paper Award' at the seventh annual conference on sport and discrimination at the Université de Franche-Comté in Besancon, France, for her presentation on 'Female Athlete Activism' and social justice advocacy at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This event brought together numerous academics, postgraduates, students, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the intersectional nature of discrimination in sports.

This lecture was Marloes Ekkelboom's debut on the international academic stage, which was appreciated by participants and organisers alike. The 'Best Paper Award' presented by the conference organisers and panelists underlines the importance of her work and the relevance of her topic in the current sports science discourse.

The conference provided a valuable platform for knowledge exchange and networking between different disciplines and stakeholders, to work together to combat discrimination in sport. Marloes Ekkelboom's success is an example of the importance of dedicated research in this field.