(School of Physical Education,Gannan Normal University,Ganzhou 341000,China) Abstract: The authors made a study of the correlations between blood types/temperament types and specialized sports on 514 students at an institute of physical education, and revealed the following findings: in blood types A, B and O, the blood types distributions of athletes specializing in different events have respective characteristics, ath-lete’s capacities have a certain positive correlation with the percentage of types A and B, and a negative correlation with the percentage of type B; in the distribution of temperament types, the sanguine temperament type and tem-perament mixed type have a higher percentage, while the melancholic temperament type has a lower percentage. The authors proposed to select athletes with type O or A blood, especially sanguine temperament type and tempera-ment mixed type talents, when other conditions are basically the same, which is conducive to making up the short-ages of single temperament type. Key words: sports genetics;blood-type;temperament type;scientific talent selection |