Man can do 100m in less than 9.5sec

[theblackalchemist]

 

Man can do 100m in less than 9.5sec

 

 

Usain Bolt, the sprinter from Jamaica, is the fastest man on Earth. He dashed to the finish line of the 110 metres in Beijing Olympics at a

record speed of 9.69 seconds. But if researchers are to be believed, humans will keep on raising the bar and could run below 9.5 seconds over 100 metres while dogs and horses are running as fast as they ever will.

 

If true, it means that sometime in the future, a runner will be able to knock more than a fifth of a second off the record of 9.69 seconds set by Bolt at this year’s Olympics in Beijing, coming in at 9.48 seconds, reports the Telegraph.

 

Marathon runner Mark Denny, a biomechanist at Stanford University in the United States, began his study with the intention of finding out whether there were absolute limits on running speeds and, if so, how close we were to them. Looking at the speeds of male race winners through the years, he concluded that men have not reached their top speeds at any distance.

 

Denny predicted that male 100m sprinters could one day get the record down to 9.48 seconds and while female sprinters’ speeds have tended to level off, they too could shave seconds off their times to cover the distance in 10.19 seconds

 

 

 

 

Man can do 100m in less than 9.5sec-Health/Sci-The Times of India