Relations Between the World Record in Running at 100m and Altitude and Wind Speed
Volume 15, Issue 1 (2025)
Volume 15, Issue 1 (2025)
Relations Between the World Record in Running at 100m and Altitude and Wind Speed
Abstract:
A sprint is a dynamic and explosive cyclic
movement determined by an ability to accelerate, a size
of maximum speed and an ability to maintain the speed in
relation to an onset of fatigue, so many factors can affect
a sprint result, whether they are of an internal nature -
motivation, technique, readiness and fatigue, or external -
wind direction and strength, altitude, temperature, texture
and hardness of substrate. The goal of the research was to
determine the connection between altitude and wind speed
with the achieved results in the 100m running for men,
which are categorized as world records (manually and
electronically measured results) and to predict the results
depending on altitude and wind speed, and to determine
the best achieved times in years in which no world records
were recorded and their connection with altitude and wind
speed, and to determine the periods of stagnation of the
results, in order to determine, after specifying those periods,
whether the altitude of the cities where the records
were achieved and the wind speed were possible causes
of the stagnation measured during the achievement of the
results, which would all help to create more optimal conditions
for achieving a better result and setting a new record
in the 100m running discipline. After all the analyses, that
is, by observing the results of recognized world records
measured manually and electronically, it can be concluded
that the wind speed had a connection and prediction in the
achievement of the world record in the period from 1912
to 1968 when the results were measured manually (if the
wind increased by 1 ms-1 the result improved by 0.08 sec),
while the altitude value had a connection and prediction
in the achievement of world records in the period from
1968 to 2009 when the results were recorded by electronic
measurement (if the altitude increased by 1m the result improved
by 0.00008 sec).
Keywords:
altitude, sprint, wind speed, world record
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