アイスホッケー選手の体型

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The body-type of members of the Japanese Olympic ice hockey team was studied and compared with that of the members of the Polish goodwill ice hockey team that came to Japan early this year (1971) .
Sheldon, Cureton, and Yokobori's classification of body-type was used in the study, and with regard to measurements of body-type and indeces, methods deviced by the authors were adopted.
Results obtained were as follows:
1. As shown in Table 5 the body-type of the Japanese players as represented by indeces, belong to type 445, and that of the Polish players to 467. A graphic representation of the indeces when applied to the triangular body-type chart is shown in Fig. II. From the illustration it may be understood that the Polish players have superior physique and muscle factors.
2. Table 8 shows individual body-type classified into 10 classes according to Cureton's method. The Table shows that 68.7% of the Polish athletes belong to the superior class of A⁺ mesomorph and that only 17.5% of the Japanes players belong to this class, indicating the superior body-type of the Polish players.
3. The Polish and Japanese players are compared with regard to their respective positions in the team in Tables 6 and 7. The Tables show that 80% of the Polish forwards consist of mesomorph and 26.3% of the Japanese forwards consist of mesomedials indicating that the Polish forwards are superior from the standpoint of body-type. No significant difference in the body-type of the defence and goalkeepers of the two teams was found.
4. Table 5 compares the body-type of the Japanese ice-hockey players with that of athletes of other sports. The high level of the fat factor in the Japanese ice-hockey players is noteworthy, while the Polish ice-hockey players even when compared to the athletes of other sports show superiority in the physique and muscle factor.