The purpose of this research work was to find out as to how a person's competitiveness are influenced by achievement motivation. The sports achievement motivation test (Kamlesh 1990) was used to collect the data. The sample for the study comprised of 128 handball players belonging to different affiliated states and units with Handball Federation of India (HFI). Out of 128 samples, 64 male & 64 female each belonged to four semifinalist teams in both section which had taken part in the 39 th

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... r National (M &W) Handball Championship. Analysis of variance and Scheffe's (Post-hoc test) was applied to find the significant difference between male and female handball players in achievement motivational pattern amongst 1st four position holders. No conclusive result was observed in the male and female National level handball players with respect to their achievement motivation.