Background: In the competitive world of sports an athlete has to care for the development of his total fitness which includes physical, mental, emotional, and social development. Most coaches, trainers, and psychologists consider that ability of an event to perform in any athlete is obviously dominated by his physical characteristics. But beyond these restrictions, psychological factor plays a very crucial role in the performance. Competition anxiety is a common emotional state experienced by athletes at all levels of performance. Most athletes have sports competition anxiety and less mental health which does affect their performance overall. Many psychological practices and programs have been used to improve mental health and reduce competitive anxiety and increase athletic performance. The purpose of the study is to analyze the sports competition anxiety and mental health between Calicut university intercollegiate and Kerala university intercollegiate wrestlers.

Methods: The subjects of the study were 60 men wrestlers. They were representatives of the All India inter-university wrestling championship from Guru jambheshwar university Hisar in Hariyana, and the subjects were chosen from various universities in Kerala state. There were 30 wrestlers taken from each university. In this analysis, two kinds of psychological parameter data were collected which are sports competition anxiety and mental health. The collected data were analyzed with ‘t’test with degrees of freedom.

Results and Conclusion: The findings of the study revealed that sports competition anxiety and mental health show no significant difference between Calicut university wrestlers and Kerala university wrestlers and also wrestlers with an average level of competition anxiety and mental health help the wrestlers to exhibit higher performance in sports competitions.