Research On The Competitive Strength Of Men's Decathletes In China's Colleges And Universities

The tenth Annual National University Track & Field Championship (ANUTFC is the abbreviation as follows) was held in Qingdao University on July 20-25th, 2005, and totally 161 colleges and universities'athletes participated in the competition. All teams were divided into A, B and C three groups, on the basis of which team or individual events ranking the first eight were awarded separately. The scale of the tenth ANUTFC was the largest one comparing with all the previous ANUTFC and the performances of the decathletes ranking the first eight approximately represented the highest level of the colleges and universities, among of which one sport master and 5 first-grade athletes were included. Coaches from colleges and universities has seriously realized the potential crisis. Simultaneously, the training of the men's decathletes was confined by train conditions such as elite selects, training time, training place, sporting equipment, etc. There are great differences between Colleges and universities'and professional decathletes, and the training of the latter is more tedious and difficult. The total time of men's decathletes ranging from enrollment to graduation is 5 years at most. Therefore, how to enhance the competitive strength and successfully complete competitive mission in such a short time is worthy of being taken seriously.The competitive strength of men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities was analyzed by documents, mathematic statistics, induction, and comparative method, placing the performance of men's decathletes in the tenth ANUTFC first, the performances of men's decathletes in the ninth ANUTFC, the seventh and ninth National College Students and the tenth National Game second. Studying the competitive strength of men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities by comparing the competitive states of men's decathletes from different angles such as lateral comparisons, longitudinal comparisons and even the mixture of the above two can provide a very important theoretical support in the training for men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities and coaches, and also offer useful experience and lessons on how to improve the level of the track and field team as well.Results show as follows:1. Men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities in a state of suspension, and the competitive levels have the trend of descending. Development among every individual event is extremely unbalanced, and being lack of stamina, the level of throwing and pole vault is on the low side. 2. With the falling of the competitive level of the men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities, the disparity among every individual event is more obvious, and the difference between events has the trend of ascending, as the result of which, the unbalance among events is enlarged, laggard events are from weak to weaker.3. Although men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities give priority running and jumping, the deference in speed is also great due to the physical qualities and fitness of athletes. Furthermore, the technique practicability and mental toughness are supposed to strengthen.4. There are certain inner relations and regulations in the mutual influences among decathlon every individual event: the predominant training of jumping has the function of transition of speed and explosive force; the progressive functions of the full development of the jumping concerning the speed and explosive force which are required by speeding and throwing events can not be neglected. The ambiguous statistics of men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities on the combination of running and jumping, running and throwing is relative high; the ambiguous statistics of jumping is relative low, the ambiguous statistics of events ascends with the increase of the competitive of events. On the purpose of improving the competitive strength of men's decathletes, training pattern should be transferred to the combination of running and jumping for making the best use of the advantages of men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities.5. The requirements of decathlon to physical fitness is overall, so improving the integrate ability is very important to the harder events. The training of decathletes should adopt the method of the combination individual event training and overall training which are directed by different coaches separately. Intensify the training or integrate ability, Attach great importance to throwing and stamina run and vigorously strengthen the training of the pole vault. Keeping every the balance of the sub item of athletes in developing has the decisive function on the improvement of men's decathletes in China's colleges and universities.6. The enhance of the men's decathletes in the 3rd group of the tenth ANUTFC should base on the breakthrough of 1500m run, long jump, 110m hurdle, 400m run. As fro the short target, 1500m run and long jump should become the breakthrough of the 3rd group.