PURPOSE: This study revealed the characteristics of pre-start anxiety in freestyle wrestling athletes. The task of the study was to find out the intensity in the structure of athletes' pre-competition anxiety. METHODS: The object of the study were the athletes of the wrestling team of the National Sports Academy - "Vasil Levski" from Sofia/Bulgaria. The study included 24 athletes aged 18-25 years, divided into two groups of 12 subjects each. The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory - 2 (CSAI - 2) was used, the scale contains 27 items, 9 in each subscale: cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence. RESULTS: Analysis of pre-start anxiety scores revealed no statistically significant difference between the two groups with respect to cognitive, somatic anxiety and self-confidence. The studied wrestlers were characterized by moderately pronounced pre-start anxiety scores. Significant correlations were found on neuroticism with cognitive and somatic anxiety (r=0.42; r=0.36) and on psychoticism with somatic anxiety and self-confidence (r=0.43; r=- 0.42). CONCLUSIONS: The obtained results reveal the significant influence of neuroticism, as a component of their typological features, on the psychological state and, respectively, pre-start anxiety of wrestling athletes. This also determines the need to apply targeted influences in the process of training to increase their emotional stability. This information could be useful for coaches and wrestling competitors, as it was found that each competition is a task of increased difficulty and with an unclear solution.
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