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HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND AGE OF MALE TOP-LEVEL GYMNASTS IN YEAR 2007 AND 2011
Marijo Možnik
; Kineziološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Željko Hraski
; Kineziološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Marijana Hraski
Sažetak
Artistic gymnastics is a highly demanding sport that
requires a high level of gymnast's physical efficiency.
However, as in other sports, one of the limiting factors in
achieving the top-level results is also the athlete's body
height and body weight, while for planning sport form
very important information is the age in which it can be
expected the athlete's best results. The first aim of this
research was to determine the differences in height,
weight and age of the top-level male gymnasts in relation
to their classification at the World Championships in year
2007. The second aim was to determine whether there has
been a change in height, weight and age of the elite
gymnasts at the World Championships in year 2011, after
one Olympic period.
The sample for this research consist of the best 70 (30
on the vault) male gymnasts who classified in World
Championships 2007 and World Championships 2011.
These were the only qualifying events for the Olympic
Games in year 2008 and 2012. The study included the total
of 900 rankings. Variables included in this analysis were
body height, body weight, age and rank in both
competitions in all around and each of the six artistic
gymnastics apparatus individually. In order to calculate
the differences between the height, weight and age models
for each discipline ANOVA was used, and to calculate the
differences between the individual gymnastics disciplines
T-test for independent sample was used.
In rings and vault the best positioned are those
gymnasts whose height and weight is less than the best
gymnasts on parallel bars and horizontal bar. In rings the
best positioned gymnasts are also the oldest, while the best
positioned gymnasts in all around are the youngest. The
results of ANOVA showed statistically significant
differences between the groups of gymnasts in one
discipline, as well as between two different disciplines.
Comparing the arithmetic mean between the first
seventy (thirty on vault) gymnasts in each gymnastics
discipline on the World Championships 2007th and World
Championships 2011th year it can be concluded that there
are no statistically significant difference between
gymnasts in height, weight and age in any discipline.
Ključne riječi
artistic gymnastics; World Championships; body height; body weight; years
Hrčak ID:
106256
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Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2013.
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