Outstanding performance in individual sports is based on intrinsic motivation. In the last few years, motivation has been evaluated through objective measurement instruments that emphasise knowing an athlete down to their finest details. The evaluation of the motivational characteristics of some groups of athletes is made according to individual sports that are practised. This study investigates 28 athletes, members of their national team, divided into 4 groups (7 athletes from table tennis; 8 athletes from tennis; 6 athletes from judo and 7 athletes from fencing) who were evaluated with the Sport Motivation Scale, SMS 28. Data analysis was performed by comparing the group results with the Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney post hoc tests. The study results show significant differences between sports at a global level, intrinsic motivation, p = .033 and extrinsic motivation, p =.001. The Mann Whitney post hoc test revealed significant differences between athletes who practised table tennis and judo, external regulation, p =.005, r = 0.52; extrinsic motivation, p =.001, r = 0.55 and athletes who practised fencing, introjection motivation, p = .011, r = 0.46. No significant differences were determined between table tennis and tennis. The results of the analysis of cumulated results from racket sports and other types of sports were non-significant. Racket sports, like table tennis and tennis, have exclusively internal motivation tendencies as opposed to fencing and judo, which on the studied subjects, tend towards external motivation.
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