Abstract: As an objective cultural system, western sports competition performance not only has its inherent logic of development, but also presents multiple interactions with the development of society and culture. From the ontological perspective of cultural development, the commercialization of sports competition performance and the evolution of large scale sports competition into show stage of comprehensive strength of national states jointly form the cultural roots of competition performance; Identity and equal participation are the primary cultural expressions of western sports competition performance; self-emancipation and heroic dream constitute the cultural stance of western sports competition performance; the competitive and transcendent spirit embodied in the “higher, faster, and stronger” ideology is the cultural attribute of western sports competition performance. Therefore, studies of western sports competition performance can promote the marketization and industrialization of sports competition in China, and is conducive to the integration of certain excellent sports competition events in China into the world sports competition system and further promote the development of sports undertakings in China.

Key words: western, sports competition, sports competition performance