Researching basic biomotor, endurance and body fat percentage of elite men and women fencers attending high level sport whose branches are epee, foil and sabre.

The aim of this study; researching basic biomotor, endurance and body fat percentage of elite men and women fencers attending high level sport whose branches are epee, foil and sabre.In this research star and young fencers attending epee, foil and sabre branches of Turkey Championships held by National Education Ministry and Fencing Federation in 2010, determined as study population. 60 star fencers (24 girls and 36 boys) and 60 young fencers (34 girls and 26 boys) totally 120 sportsman attending Championships held April and May months in 2010 year determined as study group. 41 fencer (23 girls, 18 boys) in sabre branch, 43 fencer (18 girls, 25 boys) in epee branch, 36 fencer (17 girls, 19 boys) in foil branch voluntarily participated in this study. Within study a set of measurements performed for determining basic biomotor, endurance, reaction time and body fat percentages of male and female fencers. For Biomotor tests; 20 meter running, sit & reach test, dynamic agility test, right-left hand grip test, vertical jump test and standing long jump test were performed by subjects and measurements taken by researcher. To determine endurance level of subjects shuttle run test were performed. Reaction time rates of subjects determined with Sport Expert marked MPS-501 (multi purpose system) equipment. To determine body fat percentages, anthropometric measurements was taken from subjects? Biceps, Triceps, Sub-Scapula and Supra-Illiak sites. Durnin Womersley Formula applied to calculate body fat percentages.As a statistical method, To determine differences between two groups, İndependent Samples T-Test, to determine differences between fencing branches One Way Anova, to determine differences based on fencing branch-gender-age group, Two Way Anova was performed in the level of significant ? =0.05. Tukey?s HSD test was used as the second level test for significant differences found in variance tests.Test results showed that significant differences between basic biomotor (P<0.05), endurance (P<0.05), reaction time (P<0.05) and body fat percentages (P<0.05) of groups based on Star-Young, Girl-Boy and Fencing Branch (Epee, Foil, Sabre) factors.Findings of this study showed that age, gender and training time has effects on basic biomotor, endurance, reaction time and body fat percentages of fencers.Key Words: Fencing, Epee, Foil, Sabre, Endurance, Body Fat Percentage, Reaction Time.