Sport Talent of Pupils in the Split-Dalmatia County

Abstract The study was conducted with the purpose of determining the level and the differences of sport talents in boys and girls attending primary schools in the Split-Dalmatia County. By the ''TALENT'' expert system we established potential talent in 93 randomly selected male and female primary school pupils in 14 different sports and sport disciplines based on the level of their motor and functional abilities evaluated by 7 measuring instruments. The results of the study show that particularly female pupils are, with regard to their motor and functional abilities, most talented for running athletic disciplines and kicking martial arts. We also revealed a high level of talent for sport games in male pupils, primarily tennis and football; while female pupils have talent for water sports in addition to some sport games and all kinds of martial arts. A similar distribution of sport talent in male and female pupils most likely leads to the similar structure of anthropological features in both sexes, and generally to a slightly higher level of potential sport talent in girls compared to the boys from this region. Key words: expert system; school; sport; talent. --- Sažetak Istraživanje je provedeno s ciljem utvrđivanja razine i razlika u sportskoj darovitosti između ucenika i ucenica osnovnih skola u Splitsko-dalmatinskoj županiji. Putem ekspertnog sustava «TALENT» utvrđena je potencijalna darovitost 93 slucajno odabrana ucenika i ucenica u 14 razlicitih sportova i sportskih disciplina, na temelju razine njihovih motorickih i funkcionalnih sposobnosti koje su procijenjene sa 7 mjernih instrumenata. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na to da su ucenici, a posebno ucenice, prema svojim motorickim i funkcionalnim sposobnostima najdarovitiji za lake atletske trkacke discipline i borilacke sportove u vidu udaranja. Visoka razina darovitosti kod ucenika postoji i za sportske igre, osobito za tenis i nogomet, a kod ucenica osim za pojedine sportske igre i za sportove u vodi, kao i za sve vrste borilackih sportova. Slicna raspodjela sportske darovitosti kod ucenika i ucenika vjerojatno ukazuje i na slicnu strukturu antropoloskih znacajki kod oba spola, ali i generalno na nesto vecu razinu potencijalne sportske darovitosti djevojcica u odnosu na djecake u navedenom podrucju. Kljucne rijeci: darovitost; ekspertni sustav; sport; skola.