Descriptive Body Composition Profile in Female Olympic Volleyball Medalists Defined Using Multichannel Bioimpedance Measurement: Rio 2016 Team Case Study/ Perfil Descriptivo de la Composicion Corporal en Medallistas Femeninos de Voleibol Olimpico Definido Mediante Medicion de Bioimpedancia Multicanal: Estudio del Equipo Rio 2016

• Published in: International journal of morphology 2018-06, Vol.36 (2), p.699
• Main Authors: Bankovic, V, Dopsaj, M, Terzic, Z, Nesic, G
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0717-9367

The subject of this paper was the study of the morphological status of top elite women volleyball players, Rio 2016 Olympic medal winners, with the aim of obtaining reliable quantitative data, used to determine the morphological model and to control the morphological status of top elite women volleyball players. This study tested 12 top elite women volleyball players who participated in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and won the silver medal. Measurements of body composition were conducted one day before departing for the Rio Olympic Games, on 25th June, 2016, using electrical bioimpendance analysis (BIA), with the InBody 720 Tetrapolar 8-Point Tactile Electrode System analyzer. The study included 29 variables: 17 original variables, four voluminosity-dependent variables, six longitudinality-dependent variables, and two combined index variables. The results showed that average height of the women players was 188.93[+ or -]6.49 cm, the overall mean BM value for the Serbian team was 75.56 [+ or -]6.97, the overall mean BMI value for the team was 21.08 [+ or -] 1.30 kg x [m.sup.-2], while the mean values for percent skeletal muscles and body mass were 48.95 [+ or -] 1.78 % and 13.43 [+ or -] 2.70 %, respectively. Upon a thorough analysis of the results of the study, it can be argued that in all measured anthropomorphological characteristics the top elite women volleyball players from the tested sample had a body type of remarkable basic longitudinality, i.e., BH, and a body composition mainly characterized by very high muscle mass but such a low amount of body fat that it bordered on the biological minimum for women. KEY WORDS: Bioelectrical impedance; Female athletes; Volleyball; Body composition. El objetivo de este trabajo fue estudiar el estado morfologico de las jugadoras de voleibol de elite, ganadoras de la medalla olimpica Rio 2016 y obtener datos cuantitativos confiables para determinar el modelo morfologico y controlar el estado morfologico de las mejores jugadoras de voleibol de elite. Este estudio estudio a 12 jugadoras de voleibol de elite que participaron en los Juegos Olimpicos de Rio 2016 y ganaron la medalla de plata. Las mediciones de la composicion corporal se realizaron un dia antes de partir para los Juegos Olimpicos de Rio, el 25 de junio del ano 2016. Se realizo un analisis de bioimpedancia electrica (ABI), con el analizador de sistema de electrodos tactiles Tetrapolar 720 de 8 puntos. El estudio incluyo 29 variables: 17 variables originale