Studia Kinanthropologica 2008, 9(1):207-210

What sports do students of Czech Technical University in Prague prefer?

Zdeněk Valjent
Ústav tělesné výchovy a sportu, ČVUT Praha, ČR

Author is interested in problems of sport popularity among students in CTU in Prague. He got results, when he watched number of students from higher grades, who registered themselves in days 17.6. - 11.7. 2008, when students registered themselves by means of internet connection on the UTVS CTU web page. 1201 students were registered. Sheet n.1 shows results. The most favorite sport is still conditional bodybuilding like in last years, in the second place ended climbing on artificial wall, like representative of ,, epinephrine sports '', third is floorball - phenomenon among young people in last couple years. Students are still interested in ,,modern sports'' like squash, bowling and golf, and also, students are ready to pay more money for it. Table tennis and tourism (which is included newly) surprised by big popularity. Still is some decrease of popularity between sports like basketball , softball, canoeing and outdoor footbal. Even swimming and volleyball, which used to be very popular, have decreased.

Keywords: Technical University; physical education; preference of sports

Published: March 30, 2008  Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago Chicago Notes IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Valjent Z. What sports do students of Czech Technical University in Prague prefer? Studia Kinanthropologica. 2008;9(1):207-210.
Share...
Download citation
  • BibTeX (.bib)
  • Bookends (.ris)
  • EasyBib (.ris)
  • EndNote (.enw)
  • EndNote 8 (.xml)
  • ISI WoS (.isi)
  • Medlars (.medlars)
  • Mendeley (.ris)
  • MODS (.xml)
  • Papers (.ris)
  • RefWorks (.txt)
  • RefManager (.ris)
  • RIS (.ris)
  • MS Word (.xml)
  • Zotero (.ris)
    • Open full article

    References

    1. Hendry, B., Shucksmith, J., Love, J., Glendinning, A., (1993). Young People's Leisure and Lifestyles. Routledge.
    2. http://www.utvs.cvut.cz
    3. Sak, P. (2000). Proměny české mládeže. Praha : Petrklíč.
    4. Sak, P., Saková, K. (2004). Mládež na křižovatce. Praha : Svoboda Servis.
    5. Scheerder, J., Vanreusel, B., Social stratification patterns in adolescent' active sports participation behavior: a time trend analysis 1969-1999. European physicaleducation rewiev. vol. 1: 5-27: 049822. Internet.
    6. Slepička. P., Hošek. V., Hátlová. B. (2006). Psychologie sportu. Praha : Karolinum.
    7. Valjent, Z. (2004) Vývoj v hodnocení tělesné výchovy a sportu studenty FEL ČVUT. In Sborník z mezinárodní konference Optimální působení tělesné zátěže a výživy, ss. 131-135. Hradec Králové: Univerzita Hradec Králové.
    8. Valjent, Z. (2006). Změny v oblibě sportovních odvětví u VŠ studentů. Studia Kinanthropologica, 6 (2),ss. 99-102.

    This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.


    Return to the content