Purpose: the purpose of this research was to identify the effective factors associated with the success of iraninan national Greco Roman team in Olympic competition in London 2012. Wrestling draws a great amount of attention from millions of people in Iran. What were the factors that led to the achievement of the Iranian greco roman wrestling team in winning 3 gold medals. This research studies and compares the factors which contributed to the success success of this team. Methodology: the method for this research is a comparative description of the perceptions of the greco roman team.and trainers (5 coaches and 6 athletes) of the 2012 Olympic team. These 11 subjects completed a questionnaire developed earlier that includes four effective factors. The validity has been established by way of analysis of experts in wrestling and the validity was established with a Cronbach`s Alpha test ( = 0.91). The means of the questionnaire research that was constructed by the researcher included 4 effective factors (physical fitness - mental - facilities - management) Analysis of the data distribution was performed through the use of a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test which indicated that the data distribution was normal, and therefore a t test was subsequently used in the analysis (p<0.05). Findings: All four factors were deemed as effective by this group the success of Iranian national gerco roman team benefited from sutitable levels of factors related to physical fitness, mental, facilities, and management, indicating that these factors had a role in the success of the team.Conclusion: all factors contributed to the the success of Iranian national gerco roman team in the Olympic Greco roman wrestling competition in London 2012.
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