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CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MONGOLIAN MALE ATHLETES

Lkhagvasuren Gundegmaa (1,2), Shagdar Bat-Erdene (2), Lkhagvasuren Altantsetseg (1,2)

1) Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports, Youth and Tourism, Moscow, Russia; 2) Mongolian National Institute of Physical Education, Ulaanabaatar, Mongolia

Lkhagvasuren Gundegmaa, e-mail: mongol_gunde@mail.ru.

Abstract

Sports training is the process which requires years of hard work and can not accomplish its main goal without considering human growth and body development characteristics, level of physical preparation. Anthropometric and morphologic examination of Mongolian athletes has not been conducted. Therefore, the results are of great value to theory and practice of sports science. Anthropometric examination and data collecting have been carried out at Sport Center of Mongolian Olympic team of the city Ulaanbaatar. The study comprised 581 athletes aged 17–25 years. Each athlete has been involved in 45 measurements and 20-questions survey. As a result of this study we come to the conclusion that sports activity strongly influences on physical growth and development. Training for different kinds of sports is different. The basketball players and field athletes (runners) were the tallest (average height 179 cm). Wrestlers were the shortest in height (average 166.5 cm). Compared to people who do not go in for sport, the athletes were taller by 4.5 cm. Mean height of Mongolian male sportsman is 172.6 cm. Geographical zones from where the athletes originate also influence on physical development. Sportsmen from steppe zone have bigger body, and those from Goby desert zone are smaller but have bigger fat mass. Basing on these results, it can be suggested that marathon runners can be selected from Gobi inhabitants, wrestlers – from steppe population, and players – from mountain-taiga people.

Keywords

physical growth and development, anthropometry, physical training, athletes

Цит.: Lkhagvasuren Gundegmaa, Shagdar Bat-Erdene, Lkhagvasuren Altantsetseg CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYSICAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MONGOLIAN MALE ATHLETES // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 32-33