Morphology of young handball players

• Autor(a) principal: Giordani Vasques, Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: da Silva Duarte, Maria de Fátima, da Silva Lopes, Adair
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria & Desempenho Humano (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/rbcdh/article/view/4053

The purpose of this study was to compare anthropometric and body composition variables from the best male handball athletes competing in the Santa Catarina state youth competition to variables from the other athletes in the same competition, by game position. Seven of the twelve coaches participating in the Santa Catarina Open Youth Games 2004 (up to 18 years) freely consented to select the seven best athletes in the competition (one goalkeeper, one pivot, two wingers and three backcourt players). In addition to these seven players, there were a further 79 team members taking part, bringing the total sample size to 86 athletes. The following variables were analyzed: body weight (MC), height (ES), arm span (ENV), hand breadth (DPA), wrist breadth (DRU), forearm circumference (PA), percentage fat (%G), fat mass (MG) and lean body mass (MCM). Descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) were employed to classify the athletes according to court position. The chosen athletes were compared with the others using the single-sample t test (p