Abstract
Reasons for withdrawing from sports are issues that experts in many countries address with special attention. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: BiH), these issues have not been previously researched. Therefore, this was a good ground for the author to assess what the most common reasons for withdrawing from sports for the BiH athletes were. 160 former athletes took part in the adapted survey for determining reasons for withdrawing from sports. The factor analysis produced eight factors (reasons for withdrawal). Besides determining the main reasons for withdrawing from sports for the entire sample, the T test was used to also examine the differences between male and female athletes (N=79 females, N=81 males), differences between athletes involved in individual and team sports (N=77 individual, N=83 team), as well as differences between athletes at the national and international level of competing (N=101 national, N=59 international) regarding favoring certain reasons for withdrawing. It has been determined that the BiH athletes fi nd the following reasons for withdrawal most important: "interest in other activities", "dissatisfaction with the coach/club" and "money problems." When the results are compared with the results of athletes coming from other countries, we can notice some specifi cs in the BiH athletes regarding reasons for withdrawal, where the main factors seem to be "dissatisfaction with the coach/club" and "money problems".