The topic of the thesis was to search for correlation between running speed and medicine ball throw backwards overhead from the data of results provided by Vuokatti-Ruka Urheiluakatemia from the students of year 2012. The background of the thesis was to search answer for hypothesis in the sport of Finnish baseball for the correlation between: medicine ball throw backwards overhead and running speed. The topic was given to the author by Vuokatti-Ruka urheiluakatemia and the aim of the thesis was to search answers to the hypothesis and help the day to day teaching and coaching of the teachers of Vuokatti-Ruka urheiluakatemia field of Finnish baseball.

The main research question was to find out if there is correlation between: the medicine ball throw backwards overhead and sprinting. Secondary questions were how much do students improve their results in the tests of medicine ball throw backwards overhead and sprinting during the study years. The research was executed as a quantitative research and the data contained results of physical tests of 9 female and 8 male students from first to third study year. The results were analysed by using PASW Statistics –statistics-software. The results were put into measurable form using Excel – software.

The results were that there can be found a correlation between: medicine ball throw backwards overhead and running speed results. The results for secondary questions were marked so that the results contained minimal, maximal and average change of the results.