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The article presents the results of psychological research and psychologist’s work with young hockey players at two stages of pre-competition training camps for sports training for the 1st Winter Children of Asia International Sports Games (hereinafter – the 1st Winter ISG “Children of Asia”). The research involved studying the young athletes’ psychological fitness by three indicators: the status of pre-competition mental states (motivation and anxiety), autonomic balance and psychomotor control, as factors of psychological selection to a sports team and solving key problems in the content of integrated sports training. The research presents the annual cycle of young athletes’ sports training, which is timely at the stages of basic training and sports excellence.