Peculiarities Of the Menstrual Cycle and A Number of Morphofunctional Indicators in Female Athletes of Different Age Groups Engaged in Taekwondo

The article presents the results of the conducted study, the purpose of which was to identify possible violations of reproductive parameters in female athletes of pubertal and adolescent age, engaged in taekwondo. The values of the gender dimorphism index in the study group were distributed as follows: andromorphic somatotype in 3 (11.54%) female athletes, mesomorphic somatotype in 12 (46.15%), gynecomorphic somatotype in 11 (42.31%) female athletes. It is established that 20 (76,92 %) female athletes revealed different variants of the menstrual cycle disorders. In 18 (69,23%) female athletes identified disorders of the menstrual cycle occur on the type of hypomenstrual syndrome - with the phenomena of oligo-opsomenorrhea. It is also found that in 14 (53,85%) female athletes revealed phenomena of the stage of puberty in the form of early menarche, pubarche and telarche. When assessing the manifestations of the degree of hirsutism on the Ferriman-Gallway scale, it was found that moderate manifestations of hyperandrogenism were detected in 4 (15.39%) female athletes, medium degree manifestations in 7 (26.92%), severe manifestations in 1 (3.85%) female athlete. Combined violations of reproductive indices, with a combination of 2-3 types of violations, were found in 21 (80,77%) female athletes.