Jiangsu Province Outstanding Young Track And Field Development And Countermeasures

The event of track and field is one of the biggest events in present comprehensive sports meeting as Olympic Games. There is a view in sports field said You will win if you gain more in the events of swimming and track and field. In recent years, we have made great progress in sports , but we still have a long way to go in the event of track and field, because we have a obvious disparity with America and Russia. We ever had lots of outstanding youngsters in the event of track and field who had perfect performance even in international sports meeting, but low competitive ability in adulthood.Jiangsu is a huge province in economy and culture in China. Although we have got outstanding performance in sports with the continuous hard work of sports workers in the past years, the phenomenon like above came up frequently. Therefore, we get those who ever got outstanding performance in the event of track and field in young people times together. To analysis their developing experience and find shortcomings in order to give some reference for the reserve-talented persons' training.After our investigation of more than 110 athletes and 50 relative coaches from different schools (sports schools, sports traditional schools and common schools) in different areas (south Jiangsu, middle Jiangsu and north Jiangsu ), we find as follows: the outstanding young reserve-talented persons in track and field distributed imbalanced in different programs; there was obvious difference in the ages of starting special training and the years between starting special training and first creating excellent performance; ways of training were monotonous and the funds was anxious; scientific level of selection and training was not so high; training motive and professional abilities of coaches need improvements; major part of these outstanding track and field reserve-talented persons flow to universities after graduate; the following performances of special programs make us anxious. Finally we give countermeasures for what we've found.