From time to time an athlete is presented that makes people wonder: “How are they so fast?”
Let me introduce yourself to the drop.
GOT is a 17 -year -old Sprint sensation of Australia, whose 100 -meter and 200 meters ampoule has established a comparison with nothing less than Sprint Jamaican Usain Bolt’s legend.
While he was overcome more than 200 meters in Melbourne last weekend by Lachlan Kennedy, 21, the recent 6 -meter inner silver world silver medalist who is a rising sprinter about to break the ten -second barrier for 100 meters, the drop actions continue to point out a brilliant future on the track.
In a period of seven months since last August, Gout has:
- He won money in the 200 meters in the Junior World Championship (20,60 seconds, -0.7 meters/second wind)
- The Australian record of 200m long data by Peter Norman (20.04 seconds, +1.5m/s)
- Two weeks ago in Brisbane, it broke through the magical 20 seconds barrier for 200 meters, registering 19.98 second leaders of the world (+3.6m/s), although with wind assistance (anything greater than 2.0 meters/second is considered assisted by the wind).
But what makes the drop so fast?
Is its explosive beginning, long -term step, maximum speed or soft technique?
The response, as with all athletic atypical values, is probably a combination of several unique attributes.
We are going to immerse ourselves in science.
The science of sprinting
Sprinting is a continuous battle of strength and mass.
Gravity is reducing the athlete’s body mass. Meanwhile, the athlete must apply muscle force on the track to keep the body vertically.
It suggests that the fastest sprinters in the world generate the highest earth reaction force in relation to their body mass and apply it in the shortest period, in the right direction (more horizontally in acceleration and more vertically at the maximum speed).
A 5’11 “(180 cm) and 66 kg, Got does not show the muscular physicists of previous champions, including Asafa Powell (Jamaica), Justin Gatlin (United States) or Matt Shirington of Australia himself.
However, their actions suggest that it is redefining the archetype of the elite trap.
The Gota of Australia celebrates winning the U18, the 100 -meter final during the Australian athletics championship of all schools in the Queensland Sports Athletics Center in Brisbane, December 6, 2024. Fountain: AAPA / Tails search
For anyone who has run at school, he knows the difficulty of maintaining their maximum speed for the duration of a 200 -meter race.
But the drop challenges logic. Its speed resistance (speed maintenance) distinguishes it from almost all athletes.
And not only compared to his age group, although he is currently in the second place in the 200 -meter list of all time behind the American corridor Erriyon Knighton.
The Gout speed resistance is there with the best in the history of 200 meters: Bolt, Michael Johnson or Noah Lyles. Each of them has won multiple Olympic medals.
The fastest official segment of 100-200 meters (the last 100 meters of the race) is executed in a 200-meter event is 9.16 seconds by Lyles American, on the way to win the World Athletics Championship 2022 in Oregon (19.31 seconds in general).
In Gout’s recent performance in Brisbane, he completed this race segment in 9.31 seconds. The best of Bolt and Johnson It is 9.27 and 9.20 seconds, respectively.
This statistic puts gout in the Elite company.
Gota magic
A more detailed analysis of Gout’s performance highlights some Sprint anomalies.
It covers the first 100 meters of the race in 10.67 seconds, which is quite slow in relation to its completion of 19.98.
As a comparison, when Bolt broke the 200 -meter world record in 2009 (19.19 seconds), he ran 9.92 seconds in the curve (and 9.27 seconds on the line).
But once the drop enters the line, its magic is in full exhibition.
The drop has an average step length of 2.60 meters. The length of the average Bolt step in its world record of 100 meters was 2.45 m, with Lyles showing a similar result, 2.35m, in its 100 -meter victory in Paris.
This allows the drop to take between 3.75-4 steps for each ten-meter segment, which covers at an average speed of 10.8m/s (or 38.8 km/h). Like Bolt, its passage length is a great advantage over its competitors.
However, there is compensation with the length of the passage and the passage frequency.
The longest step length of the Gout average reduces its average frequency to 4.15Hz (steps per second), much lower than Bolt that averaged 4.47Hz when it was at its best.
However, The highlight of elite sprinters depend on the length or frequency of the passage, and athletes must train their strengths, instead of fixing their weaknesses.
Therefore, this may not be an area of concern for the adolescent.
The drop also shows a unique coordination pattern in the way it interacts with the ground: the way it hits the track with your feet almost makes it look like you have springs in its peaks.
Well, we all do it in a certain sense.
The elastic energy is stored and released in our Achilles tendon, which acts as a muscle power amplifier during the race.
The longest length and rigidity of Achilles play a very important role in Sprint’s efficiency. This allows athletes to move at faster speeds for longer periods at a reduced energy cost, and can be another drop sales over their contemporaries.
A brilliant future
At age 17, Gout’s performances are out of this world.
The way in which some conventional paradigms in the Sprint generates and maintains speed challenges, namely that raw power and muscle mass are the main determinants of speed.
With most elite sprinters reaching their maximum point in the mid -20 years, Gout’s performances at this stage of his career are even more notable.
His success probably highlights the role of their unique coordination patterns, biomechanics, technical efficiency, hard work and great training.
The drop has already rewritten the history of Australian Sprinting. He is then facing the world.
It simply does not blink, he is so fast, you may miss him.
