Study Regarding the Performance Level of Children in the Second Category in Athletics, Men, at a National

Abstract

The idea of the study came from the fact that, due to the age decrease in athletics selection, and the introduction in the national competitional program of competitions for young age categories, the trainers’ temptation is to obtain better and better performances at this level even though, for children of 2nd category, the competition should represent a mean of attracting them to practice athletics, and not necessarily to win. Today we assist to an „explosion” of children’s results of 2nd category, data shown by a similar study with female athletes of 2nd category, for a geographical area competition. Considering these aspects, the current research has the purpose of outlining the performance level of male children of 2nd category, results obtained in national athletics competitions.
The scientific endeavour has started from the work hypothesis according to which: „the outline of the results’ evolution in second category children, men, can be a bench-mark in the orientation of their further preparation”. In the study accomplishment I have appealed to the research method, and the statistical analytics method for data processing.