Oral / Poster Presentation File
1Shahinshahr Education Department
2Khorasgan Azad University
Introduction:The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the features of the Taekwondo players participating in the Isfahan talent tournament with their success.
Methods: For this purpose, 73 taekwondo players from isfahan provinces (ages 15 to 17 years) who participated in this competition in 2021 were evaluated. The pectoral characteristics of height, weight, Sitting height, body fat percentage, body mass index (BMI), plantar index (plantar width ratio of foot length), waist to hip ratio (WHR) and lower extremity length were measured.
Results:Descriptive statistics were obtained to calculate the mean and standard deviation of the data and Pearson correlation method was used to determine the relationship between the mentioned characteristics and success in taekwondo players. The findings showed that there was a significant relationship between sitting height (r=0.458،p<0.05 ),plantar index (r=0.398،p<0.05),body fat percentage (r=0.585,p<0.05).
Discussion: According to the obtained findings, it can be concluded that corpus characteristics can be involved in the success of taekwondo players and special attention should be paid to the selection and talent identification of taekwondo players.
