Contemporary performance sport has a special place in all forms of practicing physical exercises, performance sport has its own regulations, its ethics requires initiation, skills, rhythmic practice, provided through training. It is also characterized by the comparative element, which is its most original feature. The political and socioeconomic power of elite athlete success, in both individual and national teams, resulted in many strong performing nations including elite sport in their national policy agenda. The focus on elite sport policy, elite funding and a strategic approach to developing athletes represents a key policy agenda for many countries. Thus, respecting the success factors in management, the qualities of a good manager, the essential problems to be solved by managers and defining competition as the fundamental form of sports activity in achieving sports performance, we can give approximately a definition of management in performance sports.