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RODRIGUEZ MORA, Jorge Leonardo; FLEITAS DIAZ, Isabel María; MESA ANOCETO, Magda  y  NINO MENDEZ, Oscar Adolfo. Somatotype and body composition in athletes of the Colombian Cheerleading Team. Rev Podium [online]. 2025, vol.20, n.1  Epub 01-Abr-2025. ISSN 1996-2452.

The objective of this research was to determine the somatotype and body composition of the cheerleading athletes of the Colombian team, differentiated between the base and flyer roles. For this purpose, a descriptive and cross-sectional study was made, in which 26 athletes participated, 16 men (25.5 ± 3.9 years) with the role of base, and 10 women (19.0 ± 4.5 years) who played the role of flyer. Anthropometric measurements were taken with the protocol of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry, for restricted profile. Body mass indices were obtained; fat, muscle and bone percentages; endomorph, mesomorph and ectomorph components that determined the somatotype; the time of experience of each athlete was taken into account to determine the time of active practice of the sport expressed in months; and descriptive measures of mean and standard deviation were calculated. The results revealed a high level of skill in Cheerleading, at a national and international competitive level, achieved by athletes with adequate experience; the somatotype that prevailed in the evaluated athletes was endomesomorph in the base role, and balanced ectomorph in the flyer role, which demonstrated the importance of the muscular component in both sexes for the adequate performance of the different skills of this sport. In the work, the evaluation of body composition and somatotype in competitive cheerleaders at the level of a national team was presented.

Palabras clave : body composition; anthropometric profile; somatotype.

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