Abstract

Chinese and foreign men's decathlon each single event performance features comparative analysis based on grey relational degree

Author(s): Weizeng Yin, Deli Zhang and Youzhong Chen

The paper uses document literature, grey relational analysis and comparative analysis to count menÂ’s decathlon best performances for 9 years from2005 to 2013 andChinese the 11th national gamesmenÂ’s decathlon competition top nine performances. Result shows that Chinese decathlon athletes adept sports events class groups are successively jumping type, throwing type, speed type and endurance type, which is different from world top decathlon athlete adept class groups, they have larger development space, from which endurance type weight is higher that of world top athletes by comparing, speed type and throwing type occupied weights are lower that need to be focused on their development. Chinese athlete total performance and each event performance still keeps larger paces with world top athlete, each event has certain development space.