The relationship between success with some physical and technical variables in The Final Stage of European Women Volleyball Continental Qualifications of 2012 London Olympic Games

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCCESS WITH SOME PHYSICAL AND TECHNICAL VARIABLES IN THE FINAL STAGE OF EUROPEAN WOMEN VOLLEYBALL CONTINENTAL QUALIFICATIONS OF 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMESThe aim of this study, was to examine the effect of physical and technical variables in The Final Stage Of The Women Volleyball Continental Qualifiying Matches for The 2012 London Olympic Games. The eight participating teams were Turkey, Poland, Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Serbia, Croatia.The teams played 15 matches in The Final Stage Of European Women Volleyball Continental Qualifying Competition. The match analysis reports were evaluated by the Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF). Data regarding of participants age, height, weight, spiking height and blocking height for the various teams were obtained from the official web site of The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). All matches were analyzed using the ?Data Volley 2007 Professional 3.4.0? program to evaluate the values for each team for each skill. For each variable an average value was obtained from the data for all matches for each team and was analyzed and graphics produced using the ?Microsoft Excel? program. Using the `?Spearman?s rho?? test in the ?SPSS 16? program, the relationship between the physical and technical values as well as between the physical values and success were analyzed. Levels of significance were set at the p< 0.05 and p<0.01.Success in the matches was equated against the relationship between 25 variables; teams break-point averages (r =-,929 **) with a high level of meaningful relationship has been found between the negative direction of success. In addition, teams service point averages (r =,810 *), emphasising the balls transation rates (r =,810 *) and excellent service reception rates (r =,881 *) were seen to have a meaningful relationship.As a result, the physical properties of teams were shown to have no significant relationship on their success. It was also observed that excellent service reception, break-point and service point sucess as well as ball transations had a direct effect on victories in the competition. The significant relationship of variables with each other directly influenced success in the competition in some cases or appeared to have an indirect effect in another cases.Keywords: Volleyball, Olympic qualification, competition analysis.