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Participation motivation is recognized as motives of participation in competitive sports. We can also say that certain needs, derives or unaccomplished goals which further take the form of motives and force a person to participate for some specific reason is known as participation motivation. The present study researcher try to compare the participation motivation level between Kho-Kho and Handball players of Mangalore University. The achieve purpose of the study necessary data was collecting through the standardized questionnaire developed by Briere N M, Vallerand R J, Blais M R and Pelletier(1995) from total of 80 subjects of which 40 from Kho-Kho and 40 from male handball players. The subjects selected were from Mangalore university intercollegiate Inter collegiate Kho-Kho and Handball tournament for men in 2019-2020. The z-test was used for testing the hypothesis for significance of mean and standard deviation for testing difference in the statistical formula. This study conclude that the there is a significant difference in extrinsic motivation-interjected between Kho-Kho and Handball players.