The Development Status And Coutermeasures Of Competitive Swimming In Shandong Province

In recent years, Shandong province has made a great stride in competitive sports, having finished the 11 th and 12 th National Games with top gold medal count as well as medal count. However, compared with the rapid progress of competitive sports, swimming relatively lags behind, failing to keep up with the pace of sports province construction, let alone playing a supporting role of a major sport event. By taking the elite swimming athletes and reserve talents of Shandong province as study objects, with the methods of expert interview and mathematical statistics, this paper has conducted a comprehensive survey and analysis on the history and current status of competitive swimming in Shandong. Based on an in-depth investigation and combined with the application of sports theory, it aims to reveal the reasons for the backwardness, put forward measures to enhance the level of the event and thus provide practical reference for improving the competitive swimming of Shandong province.Through the investigation, research and analysis, it is found that there are such problems in the aspect of athletes as shown below: athlete level distribution is unreasonable, lack of national top athletes; athlete team building is imbalanced with low percentage of young players; some athletes are not enthusiastic for swimming training; the structure of the coaching team is unreasonable in specialty, age and number of personnel. As for the training, the problems are that the coaches paid limited attention on the cycle training schedule and some coaches failed to develop the training plan according to the outline; the training methods and means are short of scientific proof; injury treatment method is single with low capacity utilization. In terms of the supporting measures, there is still a gap between our province and the advanced swimming provinces in the quantity of venues, which has set limits on the size of amateur swimming training; funding source is single and support from social economic forces is inadequate; the scientific level of swimming training is not high without enough scientific support.In view of the above analysis, this study has proposed the following countermeasures and suggestions: 1) To focus on the training of leading athletes and coaches and strengthen the overall construction of coaching team. 2) To take best use of the existing venues and bring them into full play, further expand and consolidate the training base and increase the number and size of training centers. 3) To promote the competition system reform and enhance the quality of training. 4) To optimize echelon personnel training system with first-tier, second-tier and third-tier athletes. 5) To seize the dominant advantages of national team training, develop and utilize the platform of the national team. 6) To push the swimming sports into the league tournament of primary and secondary schools and consolidate training foundation.