100-meter Sprint World Record Could Go As Low As 9.48 Seconds
Friday, November 28, 2008 - 09:22
in Mathematics & Economics
During the last century human athletic records have continued tumbling, but are there limits to how fast elite athletes can run? Marathon runner Mark Denny from Stanford University has calculated human athletes' speed limits over distances ranging from 100m to the marathon and predicts that male runners may eventually sprint 100m in 9.48s.
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