THROWING PROCEDURES USED AT THE EUROPEAN U17 BEACH HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS –STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Abstract. Beach handball started as a leisure sport, with the main purpose of maintaining the physical training of handball players during the summer, after the end of the internal competitions. The purpose of the research. The purpose of this research has been to investigate the change of throwing preferences through beach handball-specific technical procedures, to the first three teams in the initial phase of competitions (games during the groups phase), from two consecutive editions of the European Beach Handball Championship U17 - 2019 and 2021. Materials and methods. The study was carried out by viewing the video recordings of the first six games of the national teams ranked on the first three places of the respective editions, at the end of the competitions. After viewing the match records, observation sheets were completed which contained the quantitative values of all throwing procedures (throw and goal). The SPSS Statistics 17 program was used to interpret the data obtained. Calculations were made for descriptive statistics, obtaining the following indices: minimum, maximum, mean, standard deviation, variance and range. Results. The 1st place at the 2019 edition had the efficiency of finalizing at the goal through the spinshot procedure of 82.18% (DS=10.53), and the team ranked on the 1st place in 2021, had the efficiency of the same procedure of 72.95% (DS=6.22). The teams ranked 2nd in the two editions mentioned above of BH EC had an average efficiency of 87.5% (DS=14.67) in 2019 and 75.65% (DS=4.27) in 2021. The teams ranked 3rd had an average efficiency of 92.1% (DS=8.74) in 2019 and 72.86% (DS=3.9) in 2021. The 1st place in 2019 had the efficiency of finalizing at the goal through the inflight procedure of 81.94% (DS=11.08), and in 2021, the team ranked on the 1st place had the average efficiency of 35.08% (DS=20.59). The teams ranked 2nd in the two editions of BH EC, had an average efficiency of 78.05% (DS=17.65) in 2019 and 58.08% (DS=17.05) in 2021. The teams ranked 3rd had an average efficiency of 64.58% (DS=8.23) in 2019 and 68.45% (DS=24.14) in 2021. Conclusions. The trend identified by us for the 3 teams on the podium, from the U17 BH EC 2019 and 2021 editions, highlighted the fact that the share of goal throws by two points increased compared to that of goal throws capitalized by one point.