Analysis of selected physical parameters of Olympic gold medalist shot putters
Authors:
Biswajit Sharma, Rani Dhanya Kumari College, India, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kishore Mukhopadhyay, Union Christian Training College Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract:
The history of putting the shot is clearly known but evidence indicates that in the Middle Ages man used to practice throwing heavy stone for measuring strength of the worriers. Shot put is an athletic sport that is competed in the Olympics. Since the first modern Olympic for men section. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the performance of Olympic gold medalist shot-putters in relation to physical characteristics. Materials and methods. Data has been collected from internet sources from the records of last 10 Olympics. Height, Weight, Body Surface Area (BSA), Body Mass Index (BMI) and performance has been taken into consideration. Results and discussion. The results yielded that there was no relationship between performance and height, weight, BSA, BMI for female medalists, whereas, performance is significantly related with weight, BSA and BMI for male medalists. Further comparison to male and female Olympian shot-putters, indicates that male is heavier than female by 29.49% and other physical criteria. The bio-mechanical variables related with shot-put are also discussed with the help of findings of other researchers. Conclusion. Within the limitations of the study the study found that Shotput performance for female Olympic gold medalist was not related with height, weight, BSA and BMI, whereas, male Olympic gold medalist showed significant positive relationship with weight, BMI, BSA and performance. All the criterion physical and performance variables of male are higher than females.
Keywords:
male Olympic Gold medalist Shot-putters, female Olympic Gold medalist Shotputters, performance and physical parameters.
DOI: 10.14526/2070-4798-2022-17-4-18-26.