Relative Strength Across Weight Categories in 12th South Asian Games

The purpose of the study was to compare the relative strength of the weight lifters belonging to various categories. Thirty male lifters who participated in various categories in the "12th South Asian Games" held at Assam, Guwahati for the year 2016 were selected as subjects. Their relative strengths were recorded in Kilograms. The scores or performances of the lifters were analysed by calculating the means, and the data were subjected to one-way analysis of variance to find out the significance in the means. The results have shown that the lifters who participated in various categories differ significantly in their relative strength. The selected level of significance was 0.05. After applying the Post hoc test, it was observed that there was a significant difference in relative strength. However, group I had the highest relative strength, as its mean value was the highest among all the groups.