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Spatial analysis of participants in world men´s championships in selected team sports
DŘEVOJAN, Filip
This bachelor thesis deals with spatial analysis of the world men´s championship in selected team sports, namely handball, volleyball, rugby, and floorball. The thesis consists of two main part - theoretical and analytical part. Theoretical part researches cultural geography, geography of sport, as well as the history and an overview of the world championships given by the sports. Analytical part contains spatial analysis participants of world championship of individual sports, which is the main goal this thesis. Data drawn from official websites international federations are used in map parts and comparations. The results of bachelor´s thesis brought survey, that handball and volleyball seem like sports, where more states compete between themselves, however the biggest number of states comes from Europe. Rugby and floorball are sports, which has their participants less concentration around the world, participants of world championship in rugby have connection with Great Britain and its colonization, participants of world championships in floorball have link to ice hockey.
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Prostorová analýza účastníků světových šampionátů mužů ve vybraných kolektivních sportech
DLUGOŠ, Theodor
The bachelor thesis is focused on the spatial analysis of participants in the World Men´s Championships in selected team sports, specifically basketball, soccer, cricket and field hockey. The aim of the work is the spatial analysis of all participants in all World Championships in the already mentioned sports. The work is divided into two main parts - theoretical and analytical. The theoretical part is focused mainly on cultural geography and the geography of sport, but also contains a brief overview of each World cup. For the analytic part, data on participants from official websites of international federations or associations are used. These data are the used in map works and comparisons. The results of the bachelor's thesis brought, among other things, the finding that basketball and football are sports in which a larger number of states compete and their focus is mainly in Europe, but also in the rest of the world, these sports are fairly evenly distributed. While cricket and field hockey are concentrated primarily in South Asia and Australia, this is especially true for cricket. There are also several countries from Europe at the top level in field hockey, but the countries of South Asia and Australia predominate.
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Geography of Sport and Conditionality of Attendance of Ice Hockey in Czechia
Skuhrovec, Jakub ; Chromý, Pavel (advisor) ; Šerý, Miloslav (referee)
This academic work is devoted to the examination of the relationship between geography and sport. Firstly, it presents the geography of sport as a subdiscipline in the system of geography. Afterwards it discusses the relationship between geography and sport in general in different environments and at different scale levels. After the general introduction, the work deals with sports attendance as a possible characteristics of the position of sport in the area. The analytical part examines the relationship between geography and sport on specific mechanisms in a particular environment. The research studies ice hockey in the Czechia. In the first part of the analysis, ice hockey is generally presented from the beginning to the present in the area, then the attendance of the highest domestic hockey league in the period not marked by significant changes in spatial administration (from 1993, when Czechoslovakia ceased to exist, or from 2000, when the self-governmental regions were established), until 2019, when the league under investigation was not affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The analyzed data come mostly from official internet sources. The position of sport in society is changing in time and space. Sport is creating the identity and social community. The attendance of the league is growing...
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Tour de France: The effects of the geographical features of the race and stages on the results of the best cyclists and their change over time
Fiala, Lukáš ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Bačík, Vladimír (referee)
FIALA, L. (2020): Tour de France: The effects of the geographical features of the race and stages on the results of the best cyclists and their change over time. Diploma thesis, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Science, 152 pp. The diploma thesis deals with Tour de France, a three-week bicycle race whose first edition was in 1903. The work's goal is to analyse the evolution of the most important cycling race in the world after the World War II in terms of its geographical features, which affect the performance of racers, and so to differentiate successful cyclists based on their qualities on one hand and identify those parts of the race (stages) that are crucial to success, on the other hand. Another goal of the thesis is to find out how the influence of geographical conditions on performance changes over time and whether and how the categories (types) of cyclist change in this context. The work is consisted into two parts: the theoretical-methodological part and the analysis of the subject of interest. The theoretical and methodological part is based on the approaches and knowledge of sport geography, while it is almost impossible to rely on real research publications devoting to cycling and stage races. The relevant literature dealing with stage races, the Grand Tour and especially the Tour...
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