FACTOR ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG ELITE SWIMMERS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
On the sample of 10 selected swimmers, national junior champions and national junior record holders of B&H, was applied a system of 26 morphological variables. The main issue was to determine quantitative degree of correlation of hypothesis factors which are responsible for correlations between manifest variables in this research. The number of morphological variables was reduced with relatively less number of independent latent variables. Those latent morphological variables can explain mutual relations of analysed set of manifest variables in tested swimmers. Three independent morphological factors were determined: longitudinal dimension factor, factor of free fat and transversal dimension factor. Those factors were in the certain degree related. Orthoblique factors were reviled relation between longitudinal dimension and transversal dimension with high correlation 0.7609, while factor of free fat was separate factor. The most marked morphological separate variables were variables of transversal dimensionality: wrist diameter (ADRZ), knee diameter, ankle diameter, hand bandwidth (ASSA), foot bandwith (ASST), biacromial bandwith (ABIK). It is obvious that specially formed structures of morphological dimensions of elite level swimmers are result of genetic predisposition, selection and training process in swimming.