Comparative Study of Ice Hockey Players, from Russian and Romanian Teams

Abstract

In 1954, at the first participation in a World Ice hockey championship, the representative team of the Soviet Union becomes the world champion. That year, the Soviet domination begins in international hockey in the second half of the twentieth century. One of the factors that determined the success of these teams is the scientific basis on which the training programs were founded and which differentiated and customized the Soviet athletes and teams. The laboratory study of the factors influencing the sports performance, the morpho-functional characteristics, the study of the game techniques of major teams determined the elaboration of innovative training programs, adapted to the environmental conditions and to athletes, become, in the light of the athletes ' success, the object of study and reference for coaches in the rest of the world.