Goal-throw risk estimation.

The purpose of this work is to study the effect of distance between offence player and defense player on the perceived goal throwing risk. 69 handball players participated in the experiment: 33 women (12 apprentices, 11 junio rs and 10 seniors) and 36 men (13 apprentices, 15 juniors and 8 seniors). T he magnitude estimation method with seven stimuli (distances) and one stand ard was used. Results indicate that the players assign different risk value s to different distances. Apprentice men assign bigger risk values to inter mediate distances, and the another players to the shortest ones but there a re differences between categories and sex.