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- Title
TALENTS IDENTIFICATION PROJECT FOR SPORTS IN ZIMBABWE: ANALYSIS OF PRELIMINARY RESULTS.
- Authors
Pérez Martínez, Islay; Alfonso Prendes, Juan José; Sithole, Fortunate; Utaumire, Yvonne; Masocha, Victor; Quintana Díaz, Ariadna
- Abstract
The purpose of the research was to make a preliminary analysis with the first data gathered in the Talent Identification Project for Sports in Zimbabwe. Using a Simple Random Sampling, an amount of 579 boys and girls among the ages from eleven (11) up to fourteen (14) years old were selected from twenty-four (24) schools out of seven (7) provinces. Various tests were applied to measure the levels of strength of arms, abdomen, and legs; also test to evaluate the speed, endurance, flexibility, height, and body weight. The results were compared with the statistical norms that are used for identification sports talents in Mexico and Cuba. The sample of Zimbabwe achieves outstanding results when comparing it with the Mexican norm. From forty indicators analyzed in 35 of them, the sample of Zimbabwe achieves outstanding results in 35 of them, representing 87,5% with a statistical significance of 0,001 according to the Critical Values of the Sign Test. In comparison with the Cuban norm for talent identification, the sample of Zimbabwe achieves superior and similar results, in twenty (20) of 48 indicators representing a 41,7%. From these preliminary results, we can assume that the Zimbabwean population possesses significant physical possibilities for the sports practice. It is reaffirmed, the need of having statistical norm with the characteristic of the Zimbabwe population that facilitates the first step in the identification of boys and girls with potential for sports.
- Subjects
SPEED tests (Psychology); PHYSICAL fitness; RANGE of motion of joints; STATURE; BODY weight; STATISTICAL sampling
- Publication
International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 4, p291
- ISSN
1557-718X
- Publication type
Article