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likely impossible, if not how hard to achieve
Posted: 16 December 2004 06:43 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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if there was a 6’0” or 6’1” sprinter who had the exact same bodyweight/strength ratios as, say maurice greene, as well as the same limb and trunk lengths/height and the exact same mechanics as maurice and he got his coordination the same in relation to height.  in general im trying to say he got to be the exact same as maurice in all aspects but just bigger body.  same reaction time and everything. 

so theoretically could u say he’d break the world record since he’d react the same as maurice but at ten metres he’s ahead cause of longer stride but he looks the same as maurice in terms of technique and everything, stride cadence is exact same and everything. eventually he’d be ahead more and more, not a whole lot, at all stages of the race. 

don’t know it this would be possible but i’m quessing it would be near impossible to achieve?

wondering if their is someway u could calculate what kind of time he’d run if u imagine he ran the same 9.79 as maurice’s race relatively.  his time would be what?

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Posted: 18 December 2004 08:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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USATF sprint biomechanist Ralph Mann has developed a computer model which factors in such things as limb length and race distribution which can predict a runner’s time were they to run the “perfect” race. KT can probably confirm but I believe Lewis was the closest to the perfect sprinter according to Mann’s model and his predicted time was somewhere in the neighborhood of 9.6x.

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