An Investigation of the Relationship Between Hand Grip Strength and Shooting Performance of Elite Shooters

The aim of this study is to investigate of relationship between hand grip strength and shooting performance at university students who that’s high level competitors. A total of 17 university student (8 male-9 female) joined this study. Shooting performance evaluated with official results of Turkish Shooting Federation Tournaments. Hand grip performance measured by hand grip dynamometer (Takei Japan) that precision at 0-100 kg. Spearman correlation analyze was used between two parameters. At the result of this study, high relationship was found between dominant hand grip strength and shooting performance at female shooters [r(9)=0.852; p<0.01] and poor relationship between two parameters was found at male shooters [r(8)=0.062; p<0.01].