Abstract:
One of the effective solutions for predicting the sports performance and talent finding is to use
anthropometric characteristics and physical fitness factors. Therefore purpose of the study was to
examine the relationship between the anthropometrics and physical fitness variables among under 14
somatotype of male school children. To achieve the present study, 164 somatotype of under 14 age
of school male children were assigned from Jaffna central college. Their anthropometrics variables
such as height (HE), weight (WE), body mass index (BMI), arm span(AS) & sitting height(SH) have
been measured before the physical fitness test of a day. The physical fitness test measured speed
(SP), leg explosive power (LE), upper body strength (US), agility (AG) & endurance (EN). Pearson
correlation coefficient was administered to find out relationship between anthropometric and
physical fitness variables. Result revealed that U.S has correlated with all the anthropometric
variables i.e HE(r=0.400),WE
(r=0.413),BMI(r=0.376),AS(r=0.402), SH(r=0.338) besides SP correlated with BMI(r=0.270), AG
correlated with WE(r=0.274) & BMI(r=0.357). On the other hand any anthropometric variables have
not correlated with EN and LE with the rest of variables. Therefore this study was concluded that
only certain anthropometric variables have interrelationship with certain physical fitness.
