The aim. To define sport mastery psychic determinants and its training conditions at the early stage of the sport training Hypothesis. The duration of time that was assumed by psychologists to bring first sport results: 10 years 10 000 hours of the training volume [1] was verified. Subject of the study. 11 Olympic champions (various sports disciplines), coaches and sport managers. Methods. The diagnostic poll method using interview techniques, polls and documents analysis. Results. The Olympic champions: - before committing to their sport profession they used to anticipate in various sport disciplines. Only professional swimmers tended to start their career at childhood, others tended to commit to their professions when at puberty. - they required less time to achieve their first international results than it was presented in the theoretical assumptions at the time. - they owned the typical psychic features for their professional sport discipline. The most common mentioned were: Selfmotivation, high responsibility, fatigue tolerance, physique, emotional stability, fast learning skills, competitiveness, mental toughness, Conclusions. 1. The beginning of the swimming career was confirmed to be at childhood and youngsters at puberty. 2. Contrary to the theoretical assumptions the Olympic champions required less time to achieve first international sport successful results 3. All gathered evidence provided the foundation to undermine psychologists` assumptions [1] regarding the time required to bring young athlete first successful results in sport 4. The work volume required to achieve first international successes by the Olympic champions on avarage took = 3084 hrs (min 1840 hrs- max 4495 hrs).
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