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This study has been carried out with the purpose of determining the relationship between the upper extremity strength and body composition of amputee soccer players and their speed performance. A total of 31 soccer players with an age average of 25.87±1.22 and one sided below the knee amputation have volunteered to participate in this study. The body weight, body height, body fat percentage, body mass index of the soccer players were evaluated and the right and left hand grip strength, flexed arm-hang test and 10 m, 20m and 30m speed tests were performed with the forearm crutch. In the analysis of data, the correlation coefficients of the variables and their statistical significance was calculated with the Pearson test. According to the obtained findings, it was seen that there is no significant relationship between body height, body weight, body fat percentage, body mass index, right and left hand grip strength and 10 m, 20 m and 30 m speed performances of the soccer players (p>0.05) and that there  is a low medium level negative correlation between flexed arm-hang test and 30 m speed performance (r=-0.377; p<0.05). As a result, it was determined that the hand grip strength and body composition of the amputee soccer players did not affect the speed performance, and that there was a relationship between the muscular endurance and the 30 m speed performance.

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