SWIMMING PERFORMANCE OF APPLICANTS TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT PEDAGOGICAL FACULTY OF CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE IN 1990-2010
Abstract
This paper summarizes the results of the longitudinal monitoring of swimming performance of the candidates for study at the Faculty of Education of Charles University (Charles University) in Prague in years 1990 - 2010. The aim of the work was to evaluate the monitored period in terms of changes in actual performance of the candidates, all that based on an analysis of the results of the swimming tests and the subsequent data processing.
The swimming test, based on many years of empirical research, is characterized primarily by the length of the track 100 meters freestyle and obligatory jump start. The work follows from the results of similar surveys at universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which have taken place in recent years.
It was found out that the average swimming performance results of all applicants for study at Charles University in the years 1990 - 2010 had a slightly declining trend - the candidates swam slower. Both men and women tended over the years to reduce speed, but for women this trend was not that noticeable, so it can be said the women's performance had a constant or slightly worsening outcome.
From a performance standpoint it was very interesting that the tendency of participants to swim slowly was more noticeable after 2005. Based on the results, we conclude that after 2005 worse swimmers participated in the entrance tests than in the previous years and that these applicants for studies at Charles University were the generation that suffered from qualitative changes in the organization of teaching of swimming during PE lessons at elementary schools after 1989.