During the s some experimental races were run over a distance of metres using hurdles with a height of During the Summer Olympics a decision was made to introduce the m hurdles using hurdles with a height of 84 cm and the first international event in the m hurdles occurred at the European Athletics Championships, which were won by Karin Balzer, GDR.
The modern m race has an extra 2 hurdles compared to the 80 m race, which are higher and spaced slightly further apart. The home stretch is shorter by 1. My interpretation is that they wanted to increase the number of hurdles to 10 but also keep the spacing. To do so they could just increase to metres.
This reasoning is also followed in the debate 80 meter hurdles? I don't know why, but if, as you speculate, the aim was to harmonize with the men's hurdles, I think it has been achieved in the most practical manner. With the change, the women now face ten obstacles, just as the men do. Furthermore, by increasing the overall distance only twenty meters, the women can still three-step the hurdles, just as the men do. The key parameter is distance between hurdles.
I took the official spacing for hurdles and did some calculations to see what other combinations could have been used. The problem is that the bigger distance between hurdles makes it hard to combine with the typical 4-step and may make them need an extra, smaller step that would break speed. However, it may be way harder since the amount of hurdles to skip is bigger. Sign up to join this community. Jamaica's Vashaun Vascianna finished in second place with a time of Masilingi, who took silver in Thursday's m final behind Jamaica's Tina Clayton, was the fastest of the finalists as she won her semi-final in a championship record time of Both Mboma and Masilingi are unable to compete at certain events due to differences in sexual development DSD and classified as "intersex" athletes with naturally high testosterone levels.
Like the metres sprint, the metre hurdles begins in the starting blocks. For the metre hurdles, the first hurdle is placed after a run up of The next nine hurdles are set at a distance of 9. Hurdles athletes are first of all sprinters. They must possess the characteristics of speed specialists - reflexes, power and strength. To this must be added the right physique - hurdlers should be tall, or have proportionally long legs to ease hurdle clearance - and have a flawless hurdling technique.
It is a question of flowing over the 10 hurdles like a big cat, without breaking stride. Hurdlers must search for fluidity after the start and for rhythmic speed between hurdles. The 10 jumps must be accomplished with perfect linear movement and style is king. The Olympic Games have included the metre hurdles in its program since The equivalent hurdles race for women was run over a course of 80 metres from through Starting with the Summer Olympics, the women's race was set at metres.
The first great hurdler was Alvin Kraenzlein USA , who created a new technique by striding over the hurdles and taking three steps between barriers. This style was further refined in by the Canadian Earl Thomson who became the first hurdler under 15 seconds. How high are hurdles in Olympics? How long do hurdles last? Who holds the m record?
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