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This study aims to analyze the effect of the relationship among leg volume, leg mass and flexibility on success in university student elite gymnasts. It was conducted on Haliç University, Marmara University, Çukurova University and University of Kirsehir Ahi Evran gymnastics teams (male and female) which took part in Turkish Intercollegiate Gymnastics Championship and, later, voluntarily participated in this study. While years of age, height and weight of male gymnasts participating in the study were 21.20±1.57, 174.00±4.57 and 67.60±6.46 kg, respectively, the same values were 21.00±2.65 years of age, 165.31±4.60 cm and 54.62±4.63 kg for female gymnasts, respectively. Spearman correlation analysis was performed using SPSS 22.0 package program for Windows, the level of significance was taken as 0.05. The analysis results indicate a highly positive significant correlation (r=0.761, p<0.001) between leg volume and leg mass in male gymnasts, a highly positive significant correlation (r=0.674, p<0.01) between leg volume and leg mass in female gymnasts, a highly positive significant correlation (r=0.795, p<0.001) between leg volume and leg mass in male and female gymnasts, a low positive significant correlation (r=0.361, p<0.05) between leg volume and success in male and female gymnasts, and a moderate positive significant correlation (r=0.463, p<0.05) between leg mass and success in male and female gymnasts. As a result, gymnastics as a sport requires a combination of speed, strength, endurance, agility, and flexibility. Speed, strength, agility and flexibility are important parameters for training and performance. In addition, an optimal amount of leg volume (13000 ml, 14000 ml) and leg mass (13-14 kg) contribute to success in elite gymnasts.

This study aims to scale average leg volume and mass scales of elite male and female athletes in some olympic sports. A total of 280 elite athletes comprising of 200 males and 80 females studying at School of Physical Education and Sports at University of Kirsehir Ahi Evran voluntarily participated in this study. Frustum and Hanavan methods were used to determine leg volume and mass, respectively. SPSS 22.0 package program for Windows was used for descriptive statistics analysis of the study. The present study found average leg volume and mass scale of male athletes in football, basketball, volleyball, handball, gymnastics and wrestling and female athletes in football, basketball, volleyball, handball, gymnastics, box, taekwondo and tennis. It was observed in the related scale that leg volume of the athletes in the lowest weight classes in weight sports were lower. In other words, leg volume and mass of the athletes were in direct proportion to their weight class. When the scale of female athletes is analyzed, it can be noted that volleyball players have the highest leg volume and mass among team sports players.