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Performance Analysis of Women’s Youth Beach Handball World Championship 2017

The aim of the research was to determine performance indicators of the winning and losing teams at the Women’sYouth Beach Handball World Championship 2017 in Mauritius. The sample consisted of 56 matches played at the competition, i.e. 112 opponents from fourteen different national teams: Argentina, American Samoa, Australia, Chinese Taipei, China, Croatia, Hungary, Mauritius, Netherlands, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain, Thailand and Venezuela. The sample of variables consisted of the successfully and unsuccessfully executed technical and tactical handball elements in the attack and defence phases of the game (12 variables describing performance in offence- successful/unsuccessful inflight shots, spin shots, a specialist’s shots, direct goals, one-point shots, 6m shots and three variables related to defence - successful/unsuccessful goalkeeper’s saves and blocks). The Mann-Whitney U-test was used to determine the differences in performance variables between the winning and losing teams. The results showed statistically significant differences between the winning and losing teams for the following variables: successful inflight shots (0.98 ± 1.17 vs. 2.95 ± 3.08), successful spin shots (7.50 ± 5.73 vs. 11.16 ± 6.21), successful specialist shots (3.09 ± 2.55 vs. 4.79± 2.75), successful direct goals (0.43 ± 0.74 vs. 0.75 ± 0.86), and goalkeepers’ effectiveness. An effective way of playing beach handball is created once the young female players meet both the attractive, specific requirements of the beach volleyball as well as the requirements of the classic indoor team handball. Successful spin shots, followed by classic jump shots efficiently performed by a player marked with a shirt in a different colour – a specialist were obtained as key factors in creating the performance of winning teams

technical-tactical elements, beach handball, women, performance analysis

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