Yasunori Fujito

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between physical fitness and performance of collegiate alpine skiers, including Japanese national athletes, and the effectiveness of the measurements and world-class athletes (World) and collegiate alpine skiers (College) was to clarify the difference in physical fitness level. Seventeen collegiate male alpine skiers participated in this study. The measurements were an-thropometry, body composition, flexibility, muscle strength power test, anerobic power, and aerobic power measurement. For the performance of the alpine skiing competition, the FIS points (SL, GSL, SG) set by the International Ski Federation (FIS) were adopted. The relationship between the physical fitness test and the FIS points was evaluated using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. In addition, in order to examine the difference in physical fitness between Collage and World, the difference of the measured value was calculated with reference to the report of the previous study Neumayr et al. (2003). The relationship between FIS points and physical fitness measurements was shown in many fitness levels in SL and GSL competitions, with significant negative correlations with all fitness except anthropometry, body composition and flexibility. The knee flexion torque, which was related to performance, showed a larger value than Collage in World, with a difference of up to 43%. The next largest difference was the relative aerobic power at 2 mmol/l. Physical fitness factors of knee joint torque, power test, anerobic power and aerobic power of collegiate alpine skiers were found to be significantly correlated with alpine skiing performance. The re-sults of this study suggested that the target value of physical training to the world level