The comparison of the competitive activity of wrestlers in Greco-Roman and freestyle at the Olympic games in London in 2012

Abstract

The subject of this study is the competitive activity of wrestlers in Greco-Roman and Freestyle. The competitive activity was analyses on the specimen of all fights held at the Olympic games in London in 2012, and realised in seven weight classes. Based on these fights, it is posible to get the clear insight in physionomy of competitive activity in wrestling in both Greco-Roman and Freestyle, as well as particularly point out the specifity of both of these wresting styles. When defining the subject of the study we have started from the fact that the course and dynamics of the fight depend on: the rules of the fight, as well as the method of applying these rules, the number and type of techniques, time parameters the technique is performed in, dynamics of awarding penalties and penalty points, and also the skill in using the possibilities of checking the righteousness of decisions made by the judges. The goal of the research is to compare the competitive activity of wrestlers in Greco-Roman and Freestyle Wrestling and based on these indicators define indicators on which the competitive discipline hasn't got much influence. Also, the goal is to clearly create profiles of the competitive activity indicators that are highly different in these two disciplines. All of this should draw attention of sports experts in Wrestling to indicators of the competitive activity that are specific for each of these competitive disciplines and in that way give guidelines for training technology. In this research of transversal character, data gathering has been conducted through the observational method, i.e. based on the analisys of data from competitions by the help of the video material of all the fights held at the Olympic games in London 2012.