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Strategies Development of Sports for all and Championship Sports in Zanjan Province

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The purpose of this research is to design and formulate strategies to develop sport for all and championship sports in Zanjan province. The target population of the study was two groups. The One’s group to design and formulate strategies to develop sport for all includes physical education teachers, educated coaches and athletes, physical education graduates and postgraduate students. The sample was 45 individuals selected among the target population because statistical population was limited. The second group to design and develop strategies of championship sports includes the physical education professors, the managers of Physical Education departments, educated coaches and M.A students in the province.The statistical sample encompasses 36 individuals selected totally due to limited Statistical population. Data collection instrument was two researcher (sport for all and championship sports)made questionnaire the validity and reliability of which were approved by several faculty members and by using Cronbach's alpha (94%) and (90%) respectively. The survey questionnaire to Sport for All consisted of 38 questions about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of sport for all in Zanjan province, and the survey questionnaire to championship sports consisted of 43 questions about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of championship sports in Zanjan province. For research findings analysis purpose, Friedman test and group discussion were taken into account. After identifying the most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the field of sport for all and championship sport and ranking them in the existing order, we selected most important ones through group discussion. According to the research results, The location of sport for all and championship sports in Zanjan Province in SWOT Model showed that in WT the organization must take itself defensive. Finally, according to the position of SWOT model, development of an appropriate strategy is needed.