Abstract

“Nerves held is victory beheld”- whether it is a group game or individual event today the pioneer sportsmen are near perfect, everyone is scientifically trained, technologically aided and every small component of performance is concentrated and carefully handled. The margin of victory is ever decreasing and sometimes determined by 100th fraction of second/ a point. Thus it becomes a prime question- what makes the difference? When all pioneers are equally trained and are capable of performing equally. The present study was conducted on 40 sports persons who participated at inter collegiate competitions in short distance or sprints (100 and 200 mts) and Kabaddi to ascertain the difference in mental toughness among the sprinters and kabbadi players. The result of the study proves that sprinters had higher level of concentration than the kabbadi players, the kabbadi players had significantly higher ability to handle pressure and Rebound-ability than the sprinters.