Petrushevskyi Y. Development of Handball in Ukraine in the Context of Sports Globalization

In the dissertation the peculiarities of handball development in Ukraine in the conditions of globalization of sports are considered and generalized. According to the analysis of scientific and methodological literature, legal documents and information from the Internet, the rapid development of elite sports, especially over the past decade, requires a qualitatively new approach to organizing and training athletes for the Olympics, World and European Championships, taking into account modern trends in the development of this sport. Analysing the development of handball in the leading countries of the European Union (France, Germany), we can identify the following features: the autonomy of sport; mass nature of this sport, which is based on student sports; interaction of public and state organizations with active participation of the state in the regulation and financing of training programs for athletes at different stages, taking into account the results of scientific research, as well as training. An important component is functioning of training centres, which not only provides optimal conditions for combining training and sports, but also creates an optimal atmosphere of competition, improvement of athletes, training and experience of coaching staff.