Abstract des Autors

Introduction: Sport motoric investigations used to assess the physical skills of children are an important aspect of monitoring a healthy development of children. For Germany, representative data on target values for motoric skills of children and adolescents are available through a large-scale program called Motorik-Modul (MoMo). For Switzerland, one can draw upon a vast quantity of data for the town of Winterthur from a study of the Swiss evolutionary study (SES). This paper presents, limited to the test standing long jump, a comparison of the German children due to target values with the results of the SES [1–3].
Methods: Within the MoMo the motor skills of 4529 children and adolescents in Germany have been tested on the basis of a standardized setup with various sport motor and apparatus facilities (girls 48,9%; boys 51,5%). The data so gained offer representative target values of motor skills for Germany as a whole. In Winterthur a complete generation of children has been tested from 2008 to 2013 with a test battery comprising five individual tests (n = 484, girls 52.3%; boys 47.7%). One test carried out in both samples was standing long jump.
Results: With respect to height and weight the Swiss data are close to the German target values. However, concerning standing long jump, there are significant differences. The 10 to 12-year-old Swiss boys do not jump as far as the German children. The results of the Winterthur children are lower than the German target values.
Conclusions: The results for standing long jump show that the skills of Swiss children are in line with the German target values, except for boys aged 10 to 12 years. The results, so far suggest that the Swiss children's skills are evolving towards the German target values. Further analysis and comparative studies in other tests are pending.