Сучасні підходи удосконалення змагальної діяльності висококваліфікованих спортсменів у спортивних іграх

Global changes in modern elite sport on a worldwide scale dictate the need to develop an effective strategy for the development of sports games events at the national level. Domestic scientists and practitioners in the field of elite sport have many years of experience in planning the preparation of athletes for major competitions and managing their competitive activities, but mostly without taking into account the international achievements in the national training programs of national teams of Ukraine in sports games. The analysis of trends in the development of elite sport, as well as the possibility of using world experience with account for the national socio-economic characteristics of training athletes to improve the performance of Ukrainian national teams in sports games at major international competitions is quite topical. Objective. Improving the efficiency of competitive activity of highly qualified athletes in sports games. Methods. Analysis of planning and competition documents, generalization of special literature, method of expert assessments, pedagogical observation, pedagogical experiment, psychophysiological methods, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. The priority directions of ensuring the successful competitive activity of highly qualified athletes in team and individual sports games events are considered. The analysis of training and competitive practice of the world best players with definition of model characteristics of their integral preparation is carried out. A synthesis of the spectrum of psychophysiological and technico-tactical indices of highly qualified athletes’ integral fitness has been carried out. It is determined that the implementation of effective performance of athletes of national teams of Ukraine in sports games on the international arena requires optimization of the training process based on individualization with the parallel use of technico-tactical, psychophysiological models of fitness of the world best players in combination with modern capabilities of our country.