Determination of the opinions of some sports members on defining the success level of Turkish sports

Sportsmen, trainers, sports managers, sports journalists, physical education teachers and academics who are essentialelements of sports lead Turkish sports with their know ledge and experience. Highly successful sportsmen and trainers spend the significant part of their time in tournamentsandtrainingcamps. Sports managers, sports journalists and physical education teachers also take place in sportssector as well. The academics who work in sports discuss and examine the sports sector with a scientific approach because of their profession. All these member shave a chance to be able to see the missing parts and observe the success of our sports system both in national and international areas, depending on the role, they have, in this sector and the experience. Purpose of this study is to determine the vision and approach of sports members who are basic elements of sports about advantage ousand disadvantage ous subject saffecting the rise of the success level of Turkish sports and how they see the successful and lacking parts of our sports system. Universe of this study consists of 1063 sports members (494 sportsmen, 276 trainers, 82 sports managers, 20 sports journalists, 143 physical education teachers and 48 academics) who participate in this study voluntarily. The data of this study were obtained byusing a 5 point Likert scale questionnaire. The questionnaire was made up of two parts. First part consists of 10 questions specifying the qualifications of sports members and these condpart consists of 40 questions specifying the successful and lacking sides, the sports members consider, of our sports system. Validity and reliability study of the questionnaire were made by applying pre-test and final test on 100 people and the alpha value was acquiredas .89. As a result of this study, it is found that there are problems such as schooling sufficient number of qualified and wise sportsmen, internationally accepted trainers and sports managers, and lack of those in Turkey. It is also resulted that, sports members overly agree on provincial directorate of youth and sports and federations do not support sportsmen, trainers and clubs. It is stated that, constructive point of view on the sports of families, society and media affect the success of sportsman positively. It is resulted that, nutrition and health of sports menare not taken note of efficiently. It is extrapolated that, a large amount of sports branches except well known and popular branches in our countr ywere not promoted and popularized precisely. Level of organising enough sports events in our country and participating in international events was also stated as low. Consequentially; the success level in the international sports area of our country was found moderate (X =3.11 ± 1.54). Keywords 1. sports 2. sportsmembers 3. successlevel of sports