中学女子の体力、過去最低　コロナ明け、男子は「回復」―スポーツ庁

　スポーツ庁は２２日、小学５年と中学２年の２０２３年度「全国体力・運動能力、運動習慣等調査」（全国体力テスト）の結果を公表した。実技テスト８種目の成績を点数化した体力合計点は１９年度以降下がり続けていたが、男子が小中ともに上昇に転じた。女子は小学生が横ばいで、中学生が０８年度の調査開始以来、過去最低となった。
　新型コロナウイルスの影響による行動制限が緩和され、体を動かす機会が増えたことなどから、スポーツ庁は全体的には回復基調とみている。（2023/12/22-17:05）

A physical fitness test conducted by the Japan Sports Agency has shown that physical strength among female students at junior high schools in Japan hit the lowest level since the survey started in fiscal 2008.
   The fiscal 2023 test, whose results were released Friday, covered around 990,000 elementary school fifth-grade students and around 920,000 students in the second year of junior high school throughout Japan between April and July.
   While the total score for physical fitness, which is calculated by adding up the scores of eight practical skills portions making up the test, had kept falling since fiscal 2019, the score rose for both male elementary and junior high school students in the latest survey.
   The agency said that physical strength among children is on a recovery track as a whole, mainly reflecting more physical exercise opportunities following the relaxation of COVID-19-related restrictions in Japan.
   According to the fiscal 2023 survey, the total average physical fitness score came to 52.6 for male students in fifth grade, against 52.3 in the previous year's survey, and fifth-grade female students scored 54.3, unchanged from their fiscal 2022 score.