THE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF USING FASTBREAKS IN FEMALE HANDBALL DURING THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN CHINA, 2009

Fastbreak has become, for all good teams, one of the main concerns, and also an efficient way of scoring goals. From the statistical data we can notice the fact that the finalist teams in the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships scored about 20-30% goals by this kind of actions. The hypothesis of the research: We have assumed the fact that studying the fastbreak efficiency on the teams from the first four places at the World Championship in China, 2009, will have a substantial contribution in modelling the performance capacity of the female national handball teams. The object of the research consists of the performance capacity of the handball female players of the national teams participating in the World Championship in China, 2009. The objectives of the research: to study and generalize the data from the handball studies, as regarding the model of the game in the female handball teams; to appreciate the importance of using the fastbreaks by the female handball teams in accordance with the latest results in the world; to determine the parts of the prospective game model for fastbreaks for the female handball teams. The research methods we have used are: analysing speciality studies, pedagogical observation, statistical method of processing and analysing of the research data. In order to centralize the data we have used the official statistics of the International Handball Federation for this tournament, statistics that are published on the internet at the following address: http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idart=2200. The subjects of the research are the female national handball teams which have taken part in the final tournament of the Handball World Championship in China, 2009. We have included in the research those teams situated in the first four places at the end of the tournament. Conclusions: The place of the fastbreak in the modern female handball is extremely precise, because when this is being used during the match, the players score 23% (1351) from the whole number of goals at this championship. Among all the finalizing situations, the fastbreak is the most efficient, about 69%, because by the means of this attacking form, players remove a lot of fighting with the opponent. The team from Spain have scored 14,60% of the goals using the fastbreaks. Norway have scored 33,33% of the whole number of goals by counterattack. France have succeeded to score 29,84% of the total number by the means of fastbreaks, and the world champion, Russia, have scored 26,98 % of the whole number of goals by using the first two phases of the attack.