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RELATIONSHIP OF PUBLIC FINANCING OF SPORTS PROGRAMS WITH ATHLETES’ ACHIEVEMENTS - THE CITY OF ZAGREB - CASE (STUDY)

Public funding in top-level sports is present worldwide, and is being promoted on the world sports stage through athletes' achievements. Its funding is provided at national and local levels. The basis of this is in commuity sports, city, region and the nation, but, the consideration here been given to the financial investment at the local level. The purpose of this research is to determine the connection between public funding of sports programs and athletes' achievements in 17 Olympic sports in the City of Zagreb, Croatia. Using correlation analysis, the correlation between the allocation of funds for the costs of sports facilities, coaches' salaries, athletes' competitions expenses and youth development, with the number of top athletes of the I., II. and III. category, and the sums of the pondered number of categorized athletes, as well as the number of active athletes with the number of clubs and the number of top athletes, has been determined. Spearman's correlation rank coefficient rs, indicates the correlation between the number of top athletes in the III. category (the higher national and lower international level of results) and financing of sports facilities (rs=0.451) ; coaches' salaries (rs=0, 676) ; competition expenses (rs=0.704), youth development (rs=0.543), p<0.05%. For I. and II. category of top-level athletes, (the high international level) the correlation is weak and negative. The number of active athletes is also correlated with the number of top athletes of III. categories (rs=0.452), p<0.05%. The number of top-level athletes of the III. category is correlated with every independent variable, meaning that more investment in each of the expenses will result in a higher number of 3rd category athletes.

argeted funding, Local sport, Top-level athletes

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