SOME ANTHROPOMETRIC AND POWER CHARACTERISTICS OF ELITE JUNIOR HANDBALL AND BASKETBALL PLAYERS.

The aims of this study were: a) to investigate some power and anthropometric characteristics of elite junior team handball and basketball players, b) to compare these characteristics of these two groups of young athletes c) to check correlation between all variables for whole sample. Participants were 20 team handball players, aged 19.32±.354 years (group 1), members of male junior national handball team of former F.R. Yugoslavia, and 16 basketball players aged 18.40±.314 years (group 2), members of male junior basketball national team of former F.R. Yugoslavia. All participants were done three power field tests: standing long jump test, standing triple jump test, and test run 20m. Also, there was making measurement of body height, body mass, and calculate body mass index (BMI). There was find significant differences between handball and basketball players in variables: standing long jump and standing triple jump. Handball players achieve better results: standing long jump – 257.60cm vs. 246.5cm, standing triple jump – 775.5cm vs. 739.2cm. Basketball players were significantly taller than handball players – 199.06cm vs. 191.02cm. Significant differences were not found in variables: run 20m and weight. Because of that BMI of handball players was greater. Height and weight had negative influence on results of all three power variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]