**5. Conclusions**

According to our findings, postural stability in highly trained adolescents and young adult athletes was influenced by sex and sport. Female athletes showed better postural stability than male athletes. The athletes engaged in dance showed the highest postural control, compared with other sports. The results of the current study confirm the claim that the criteria for optimal postural strategies for elite athletes likely depend on a given sport. This is of great importance in providing additional information about postural control abilities in highly trained athletes from different sports.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, all authors; methodology, N.Š.; software, N.Š.; validation, N.Š. and D.S.; formal analysis, N.T.; investigation, Ž.K. and D.S.; resources, N.Š.; data curation, N.T., D.S. and Ž.K.; writing—original draft preparation, N.T. and Ž.K.; writing—review and editing, D.S. and N.Š.; visualization, all authors.; supervision, N.Š.; project administration, D.S. and N.Š.; funding acquisition, N.Š. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This study was supported by the Slovenian Research Agency through a project entitled "Body asymmetries as a risk factor in musculoskeletal injury development: studying aetiological mechanisms and designing corrective interventions for primary and tertiary preventive care" (TELASI-PREVENT (L5-1845)). The agency played no role in the conceptualization of the study, data acquisition, data analysis, or manuscript writing. Žiga Kozinc acknowledges the support of the Rectors Fund of the University of Primorska (internal post-doctoral project RAVOTEZ: Assessing Balance with Quantifying Transient Behavior of Postural Sway: From Validation To Practical Application; Grant Number: 2991-3-2/21). The fund played no role in the conceptualization of the study, data acquisition, data analysis, or manuscript writing.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The National Committee for Medical Ethics of the Republic of Slovenia approved the experimental protocol (Approval Number 0120-99/2018/5). The protocol was conducted in accordance with the latest revision of the Declaration of Helsinki.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
