[Physical fitness of short-statured children at the early-school age].

Unique somatic build, structure, composition and functioning of the body of short-statured children bring about uneven chances compared to other children performing physical fitness test. Evaluation of physical fitness of short-statured children is even more important in the con-text of widely used in a school practice uniform assessment criteria.To assess the physical fitness of overweight or normal-weight, short-statured children, as measured by the EUROFIT test.Short-statured (body height below 10th percentile) boys and girls aged 8 years took part in the study. Using weight-for-height index (WHI), the subjects were additionally classified into groups of overweight (WHI>1.28 SD) or normal-weight (-1.28 SD