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The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of somatotypes and body com-position on acceleration speed in male athletes. Each somatotype groups in-cluded 20 athletes. The study was performed with elite athletes aged between 18 and 30 years. Mean values of age, height, and body weight were deter-mined for all somatotype groups. The mean ages of endomorph, mesomorph and ectomorph groups were 20.95±2.80, 20.60±3.15, and 19.40±1.46 years respectively. The mean heights of endomorph, mesomorph and ectomorph groups were 169.40±2.68, 172.25±7.34 and 178.10±6.04 cm respective-ly. The mean weights of endomorph, mesomorph and ectomorph groups were 66.20±4.74, 69.95±10.28, and 62.05±7.19 kg respectively. Statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS ver 22.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation for metric variables. A value of p<0.05 was accepted statistically significant. Somatotypes were compared with data of body compositions of the subjects. A significant dif-ference was found in height between endomorph and ectomorph (p<0.001), and mesomorph and ectomorph (p<0.05). We determined similar results when we compared with body mass index (p<0.001). Also there was a significant difference between the groups’ ectomorph and endomorph (p<0.001), and endomorph and mesomorph (p<0.001) when we compared with body fat per-centage, and fat mass variables. Endomorph and mesomorph groups were found statistically significant difference when we compared with fat free mass (p<0.05). There was no significant difference between the groups compared with age and weight. The test values of 0-5, 5-10 and 10-15 m were evaluat-ed. We determined that the best acceleration values were sorted as meso-morph, ectomorph, and endomorph.

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