Abstract

Lithuanian basketball players with hearing deficiency managed to gladden the admirers of Lithuanian basketball in 2009, same as yearly. This year they have become vice-champions of Deaf Olympic Games in Taiwan and it was the third in a row Olympic Games for people of this social group where they have won medals. In this article, differently from previous ones, we analyse the correlations of physical development, physical and functional powers indices of Lithuanian deaf basketball players. Aiming to improve the training system of deaf basketball players, it is important to study the alternation of their physical and functional powers indices in various training stages and to carry out a comparative analysis. The aim of the work was to establish the intercorrelation of Lithuanian deaf basketball team players’ physical and functional powers and to compare the standardized profile of those indices with the analogous profile of healthy high-performance basketball players. The results of the work: It was estimated that due to restricted selection of basketball players with hearing deficiency their physical development does not match physical development of healthy basketball players that is why their physical powers, quality of psychomotoric functions, and functional capacity start to play an important role. The body mass of basketball players with hearing deficiency correlates with relative anaerobic alactic muscle power and with absolute 30-s term working capacity. Particularly strong link exists between body mass, muscle mass and relative anaerobic alactic glycolytic power (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01). Indices of physical and functional powers of basketball players with hearing deficiency who play in different positions (forward and guard) differ significantly from the average of whole team players’ indices. There is significant distinction in functional capacity of guard’s blood circulation and respiratory system revealing index – Roufier index – that is receded from the average of team players in 2.0 standard deviations. Verf.-Referat