Defining a highly skilled ski-racer’s body individual resistance to acute hypoxia

Aim: to determine a highly skilled ski-racer’s body resistance to acute hypoxia. Two groups of highly skilled ski-racers (10 people in each) took part in the experiment. There were Masters and Candidate Masters of Sports in one group and the First Category Sportsmen in the other. An individual body resistance to hypoxia was determined through saturation dynamics and hypoxic index found during a hypoxic test with the help of modern scientific and technical instruments. It has been found that a body resistance to hypoxia depends on the level of a ski-racer’s fitness. The higher the qualification of a ski-racer is the more the hypoxic index indicating the body resistance to hypoxia increases. The study has revealed three types of a ski-racer’s body response to acute hypoxia. They are as follows: low, mid and high.