In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Scientific Association of Sports Management of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

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The purpose of this study was to compare the perspectives of swimming coaches and PE experts in endurance swimming talent identification indexes. The statistic population in this study included Tehran swimming coaches and PE experts with the quantity of 102 and 117. With applying stratified sampling method and Morgan Index, the sample size for coaches became 64 and 74 for the experts. Then The Gaini questionnaire (1382) was applied. This questionnaire was balanced with using the Likrit method. When analyzing the data, the Kelmograph-Smirnoph test was used for consideration of data distribution and for comparing coaches and PE expert’s perspectives; the test of Mann – Whitney U and Qhi Squre do was used. According to the results, among the coaches and PE expert’s perspectives the index of maximum of oxygen consumption, motivation, cadence, buoyancy, resistance against tiredness and tolerating the tensions were the most effective factors for endurance swimming. Also the results show there was significant difference between the perspectives of coaches and PE expert in endurance swimming that include the muscular endurance, resistance tofatigue, cardiorespiratory fitness, lean body mass and vital capacity  and surprisingly ( P ≤0.05). suggest that the swimming coaches for finding talents consider the indexes which are offered.

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