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Left-handers have an advantage over right-handers in antagonistic sports like fencing.

A new study investigated left-hander advantage in sports through data from more than 15000 elite athletes.

For fencing and table tennis, left-handers were especially overrepresented among very successful athletes.

The study confirmed left-handers' advantage for fencing and table tennis.

Whenever I give an interview about scientific research on left-handedness, at one point or another, the interviewer will ask the question of what things left-handers have an advantage in over right-handers.

One answer to this question is: Sports!

But not at all types of sport. Their advantage is specifically in so-called antagonistic sports, in which two people compete with each other. These include all

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