Morphological and body compositional study on Indian elite athletes

The purpose of the study was to analyze the morphological and body compositional characteristics of Indian elite athletes. For accomplish the study a total 40 subjects were randomly selected from different regions of Indian i.e. North Zone, South Zone, East Zone and West Zone of India. 10 subjects were selected from each zone. This study was conducted on athletes of track & field. The age of subjects were ranged from 18 to 25 years. Height, weight and Body Mass Index were analyzed as dependent variables among athletes of different zone. One way analysis of variance (AVOVA) was used to compare the dependent variables. The level of significance was set at 0.05 respectively.