Comparison of Somatotype Characteristics and Anthropometric Proportional Relations of Elite Wrestlers Between Styles and Weights

Abstract

In this paper, comparison of somatotype characteristics and anthropometric proportional relations of elite wrestlers at the level of styles and weights and, contribution to improvement and orientation of sport is aimed. 57 elite wrestlers took place in the European Championship Preparatory Camp of Turkish National Adults Wrestling Team (31 greco-roman style with 7 light weight, 14 medium weight and 10 heavy weight -with av. height: 168.9 cm. and av. weight: 81.1 kg.; 26 free style with 8 light weight, 12 are medium weight and 6 heavy weight -with av. height: 173.0 cm. and av. weight: 87.9 kg), analyzed in this study. As a result of anthropometric measurements, there are no meaningful differences between free style and greco-roman elite wrestlers both in style and weigh. Wrestlers, as evaluated in somatotype, free and greco-roman styles are characterized as endomorphic mesomorphy, lightweight wrestlers are measured as balanced mesomorphy, medium-weight wrestlers are found endomorphic mesomorphy and heavy-weight wrestlers are characterized as endomorphic mesomorphy. Meaningful difference have found between weights. In spite of there is no differentiate effect of styles for wrestlers, partake in the similar training, nutrition and competition programs from childhood, weight, leaning on differentiates of somatotypes in the frame of the components like height, weight, length of bust and arm etc., emanates differences.

Assessment of anthropometric and body composition characteristics of elite Turkish wrestlers

“…Sterkowicz-Przybycień et al [48] calculated the somatotype of 23 elite Polish male wrestlers as 1.7-6.3-1.3 in light weight and 2.2-6.8-1.1 in heavy weight, and the endomorphic component increased significantly. Öcal Kaplan and Yıldıran [39] reported the somatotype mean of 57 elite Turkish wrestlers aged 23.35 as 2.15-6.14-1.17 in light weight, 2.59-6.70-0.75 in middle weight, 4.12-7.90-0.18 in heavy weight. Noh et al [34] calculated the somatotypes of 13 elite Korean wrestlers with an mean age of 19.5 according to weight categories as 1.6-3.6-2.7 in light weight, 2.8-5.3-0.7 in middle weight, 3.7-5.9-0.3 in heavy weight.…”

“…Also, weight categories are an important factor to determining the morphological differentiation of wrestlers. The biggest somatotype differences among weight categories occur between the heavy weight and light weight [8,9,23,39].…”

“…It has been research on elite wrestlers of successful countries when the literature is examined, such as Poland [23,48], Iran [31], Serbia [9,43], Italy [60], Korea [34], and Japan [58]. In addition, similar studies are conducted on Turkish wrestlers [1,13,39]. In these studies, anthropometric characteristics were examined according to weight categories or these characteristics were evaluated together with performance parameters.…”

Correlations between Anthropometric Measurements and Sports Discipline Aptitude

“…The use of anthropological parameters that allow the assignment of a competitor to a specific sports discipline can be very helpful for discipline-specific achievements. Several studies reported that anthropometric parameters for different age groups and sports disciplines [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] could be split into two based on the reported parameters. These are [2] purely anatomical, anthropometric reports providing lengths and widths of limps and circumferences of the chest and waist and [4] fitness-related anthropometric reports that include bone mineral density (BMD) and free-fat mass (FFM).…”

Body Composition of Individual Male Athletes in Elite Level

“…Bu farklılıklar ağırlık kategorisi olan güreş ve halter gibi branşların sıkletleri arasında gözlenmektedir. Genel olarak ağırlık kategorisi yükseldikçe sporcuların vücut yağ oranı artmaktadır (Keogh vd., 2007;Garcia-Pallares vd., 2011;Öcal Kaplan ve Yıldıran, 2018). Buna karşın, sporcuların seviyeleri ve performansları arttıkça da vücut yağ yüzdelerinde azalma gözlenmektedir (Behdari vd., 2016).…”