Objective Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion. This study applied a gendered environmental approach to identify modifiable features of women’s sport environments that may contribute to the gendered patterning of sports injuries. Our objectives were to identify features of gendered environments that mattered in athletes’ lived experiences and to trace pathways connecting these features to injury. Methods We employed a creative methodology combining semi-structured interviews with artefact-elicited storytelling and poetic transcription to actively centre women athletes’ voices and communicate their experiences in formats intended to stimulate reflection among sport system stakeholders. Results Drawing on insights from 20 recently retired women athletes across 11 UK high-performance sports, our reflexive thematic analysis identified five gendered environmental challenges shaping women’s injury experiences, risk and outcomes: (1) stereotypes trivialise injury, (2) physiology is all or nothing, (3) the ‘ideal’ female athlete, (4) in/visible inequities and (5) uneven power dynamics. Within these gendered environmental challenges, we identified mechanisms through which challenges manifest in the everyday experiences of athletes, highlighting these as potential points to disrupt the gendered environments-to-injury pathway. Conclusion Our findings provide an evidence-based framework for categorising and addressing gendered environmental challenges in women’s sport. Interventions to reconfigure the gendered status quo within sport should be embedded as part of injury prevention strategies. No data are available. Due to ethical considerations, datasets from this project are not publicly available.

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运动损伤的性别环境途径：英国高绩效背景下退役运动员的见解


目的 女性发生某些运动损伤的风险仍然增加，例如前交叉韧带断裂和脑震荡。本研究应用性别环境方法来确定女性运动环境的可改变特征，这些特征可能导致运动损伤的性别模式。我们的目标是确定在运动员生活经历中重要的性别环境特征，并追踪将这些特征与受伤联系起来的途径。方法 我们采用了一种创造性的方法，将半结构化访谈与人工制品引发的故事讲述和诗意的转录相结合，积极以女运动员的声音为中心，并以旨在激发体育系统利益相关者反思的形式交流她们的经验。结果 根据 20 项英国高性能运动中 11 名最近退役的女运动员的见解，我们的反思性主题分析确定了影响女性受伤经历、风险和结果的五个性别环境挑战：（1） 刻板印象轻视受伤，（2） 生理学是全有或全无，（3） “理想”女运动员，（4） 内部/可见的不平等和 （5） 不平衡的权力动态。在这些性别化的环境挑战中，我们确定了挑战在运动员日常经历中表现出来的机制，强调这些是破坏性别环境到受伤途径的潜在点。结论 我们的研究结果为分类和解决女子运动中的性别环境挑战提供了一个循证框架。应将重新配置体育运动中性别现状的干预措施作为伤害预防策略的一部分。没有可用的数据。出于道德考虑，本项目的数据集不公开可用。