Hi all,
First time poster, so please forgive my mistakes if I'm posting in the wrong spot etc.
I'm doing a dissertation at Oxford investigating the progression/development of schoolboy athletics times over the 20th century. I've hit a bit of a stumbling block with metrification. Obviously for field events (I'm looking at High Jump and Long Jump) it is fine, and I can use a standard change over metric. But for the track events I'm looking at (1500m/1 mile, 100m/110 yards, 400m/440 yards) it is more complex. Is there a universally agreed way of scaling the imperial results? It is primarily an issue for the 1500m/1 mile, as 400 pretty much equates to 440 and same for 100.
Thanks,
Gus