This study aimed to examine the motivation in sport and olympic values of elite boxing and muaythai athletes. The study group of the research consisted of a total of 187 elite athletes made up of 106 muaythai athletes and 81 boxers. In the analysis of the data, One-Way ANOVA and the Tukey HSD test were applied for comparisons of more than two groups with normal distribution, the Mann Whitney U test was applied for paired comparisons that do not follow a normal distribution, and the Kruskal Wallis H test was applied for comparisons of more than two groups. According to the results of the research, motivation in sport and olympic value perceptions differ statistically significantly according to gender, education, and being a national athlete. ‘Amotivation’ scores of the female athletes were higher than the scores of the male athletes. According to educational status, the mean scores of the athletes who graduated from secondary school in the ‘Appreciation of diversity’ sub-dimension were higher than those of the athletes who graduated from high school. Regarding being a national athlete, the mean scores of the non-national athletes in the ‘amotivation’ sub-dimension were higher than the mean scores of the national athletes. As a result, elite boxing and muaythai athletes' perceptions of motivation in sport and their olympic values differed according to demographic factors.

Boxing, motivation, muaythai, olympics