The Research On The Development Of Hebei Athletic Track And Field Sports

Nowadays, the world's track and field sports have developed at a very fast pace. With the development of economic basis and science and technology, modern track and field sports have entered an unprecedented era. The international track and field sport has showed a multipolar growing tendency and the athletes'competitive levels are also on the rise. The world records which once are considered close to the limits of human body continue to be refreshed. In the face of development and changes in the world's competitive athletics, if China's athletics want to be world strong powers, we must work hard based on the new situations and enhance the overall competitive strength. To achieve this goal, we need to rely on the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to work together. For each province and city, it is their non-adjacent responsibilities and obligations.Located in North China, Hebei Province which has owned a vast territory and large population has geographical and demographic advantages, but the economic base was weak. Even so, Hebei Province has achieved brilliant results, and competitive strength has always been in the upper level of the country. It has also trained a lot of elite athletes for the country and has made great contributions to this cause.However, since entering the twenty-first century, the level of competitive track and field sports in Hebei Province declined. With the retirement of athletes, once a highly competitive track and field project no longer show any outstanding performance and high levels of achievement. It exposes various problems, such as the lack of elite atheletes and prospective talents, the decrease of advantageous items and weakness of atheles'competitiveness. The prospects of track and field in our province make people worrisome. Therefore, how to rapidly improve the level of track and field in our province becomes an urgent problem for us to solve, and is also an important project concerned with the overall strength of the track and field in our country.In this paper, different reseach methods such as literature review, data collection, interviews, survey, mathematical statistics, comparative analysis have been adopted. The study subjects are the previous achievements and rankings of Hebei track and field athletes in the National Games, and achievements and rankings of the top eight in the 7th to 11th National Games. Meanwhile the paper chooses the professional teams in our province, part-time coaches in sports training school, professional athletes and related experts as the survey subjects.This paper tries to conduct a deep and systematic research on the present situation of competitive track and field in Hebei province. It will analyze the change of overall strength of Hebei track and field and disclose the influencing factors of Hebei track and field sports , so as to find the problems, the underlying advantages, measures and countermeasures objectively.The study results show that:1.The competitive strength of Hebei's track and field sport is in the upper level of the country. However, there is still a big gap with such strong provinces as Shandong, Liaoning, Guangdong. Before 1990s, the male athletes are stronger than the female athletes, while later female athletes are stronger than male athletes in the track and field sports.2.The competitive strength of male athletes in Hebei track and field showed a"M"state of development which means going up, dowm, up and down. Now it stays at the lower middle position. The female athletes showed a"up"tendency and Hebei's female track and field sport is in the upper level of the country. With the athletes'retirement, advantageous projects in the Track and Field are shrinking continously. Once some potential and advantageous project no longer had a good grade, especially the strength level of male and female 400-meter, women's 100 meters hurdles, and 400 meter hurdles dropped most seriously. At present, the women's shot put, men's triple jump and 110-meter hurdles have showed the strongest competitive strength, and then women's javelin, discus, long jump, men's discus , throw three levels and so on.3.The Track and Field coaches in Hebei Province are almost rationally structured. The number of professional athletes are sufficient and amateur training athletes are increasing year by year. The sound regulatory institution and clear responsibilities actively promote the integration process of "science, training, and research". However, there are still serious problems and inadequacies in some aspects, such as the coach team, athletes team, management system, competition system, training system, back-up personnel training system, and so on. The main problems are the lack of coaches and especially the high-level coaches, the weak research awareness and capacity of the most athletes, the inferior cultural qualities of the athletes and bad way out after retirement. To some extent, those problems affect the young people's training initiative. The functional department control too much, administration is too stubborn and different departments lack coordination and communication. Without sponsored company, the training fund is not sufficient and the source is single. The problems also include the low level of scientific training, few scientific intervene, low benefits, poor training conditions, the lack of medical supervision, effective incentive and effective competition mechanism. The network layout of athletics training system is unreasonable. There are no school-level sports teams in primary and middle schools any more and the county-level amateur sports schools ceased to exist. The number of municipal amateur sports school can not be reduced more. The professional coordinated type of reserve forces training model emerged. These problems that occurred in the development of competitive athletics seriously restrict the sustainable development of track and field in Hebei province.4.Strategy for the development of competitive athletics in Hebei province: We should strengthen the building of coach teams, focusing on optimizing the structure and intensive training so as to continuously improve the management capacity of coaches, business capabilities, the level of teaching and scientific research capabilities. We should also strengthen the athletes'cultural quality by changing the status quo of the current cultural courses which professional teams and provincial sports schools pay few attention to. The cultural grades should be linked with competition quality in order to stimulate the the athletes'study enthusiasm. We need to to enhance job security work and establish the necessary job placement sector for the retired athletes through strengthening the cooperation between enterprises and institutions, and recommend or encourage retired athletes to start their own businesses. At the same time we should implement the currency system instead of job placement and release the compensation fees in a timely manner in order to protect the interests of retired athletes. We need to establish a practical back-up personnel training system, form enterprises to participate in track and field club and establish competition mechanisms for the coaches posts.