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  2. Elite runners and coaches explain what it takes to run a sub ...

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    Running that fast for that long never is. ... Other times, the athletes go on a four-mile tempo run at around a 4:55 mile pace before finishing the workout with 200-meter strides on the track.

  3. 10-second barrier - Wikipedia

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    Maurice Greene, in 1999, was the first athlete to run under 9.80 seconds. Usain Bolt surpassed 9.70 seconds in 2008, and 9.60 in 2009. After 2007, South America had the distinction of being the only area from which no athlete had run a sub-10 second 100m, this distinction was however lost in the area's own 100m Final on 28 July 2023 in which ...

  4. Wind assistance - Wikipedia

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    Since then, other athletes have registered faster wind-assisted times, notably Tobi Amusan of Nigeria (Omo Naija from Ijebu-Ode) who broke her own world record of 12.12 seconds with a time of 12.06 seconds about an hour after setting it with a tail wind of 2.5 m/s [13] (she broke the world record (12.20 seconds by Kendra Harrison) set in July 2016.

  5. Matthew Boling - Wikipedia

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    Matthew Boling (born June 20, 2000) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the sprints and long jump.He won four gold medals at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships in the 100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 m relay and 4 × 400 m relay, and helped set world under-20 records in both of the relay races for the United States.

  6. How do athletes avoid wedgies? And more Olympic questions you ...

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    If you’re anything like us, watching the Summer Olympics involves a lot of staring at the screen with your jaw dropped in awe. But it’s not just the daring backflips and the lightning-fast ...

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  8. Biomechanics of sprint running - Wikipedia

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    In short, the athlete would have a hard time controlling the rotation of their trunk without arm swing. The same study [8] also suggested that, as opposed to popular belief, the horizontal force production capabilities of the arms are limited due to the backward swing that follows the forward swing, so the two components cancel each other out ...

  9. Sprint (running) - Wikipedia

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    The world record in the 100-meter dash in 1924 was 10.4 seconds, while in 1948, (the first use of starting blocks) was 10.2 seconds, and was 10.1 seconds in 1956. The constant drive for faster athletes with better technology has brought man from 10.4 seconds to 9.58 seconds in less than 100 years.