Has there ever been a timed 100m without using starting blocks? Obviously you'd be a fool not to use them if you want to run fast, but how fast could someone run the 100m without blocks?
Has there ever been a timed 100m without using starting blocks? Obviously you'd be a fool not to use them if you want to run fast, but how fast could someone run the 100m without blocks?
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This is just a guess, but if you go back to the fastest 100m on a cinder tracks, that would probably be your answer. People like Jesse Owens dug little holes in the cinders instead of having blocks.
I don't know when blocks came in, but I assume it was with Tartan tracks because you couldn't dig a hole with them.
And of course the 4 x 1 has some fast 100s without blocks but that is not from a standing start.
There isn't any open record. Some of us that played football can run slightly faster out of 3 point, but blocks are REQUIRED by IAAF rules in distances of 400m and shorter. See the IAAF rule book.
Only in masters will a 3-pt or standing start stand up.
a 3 point start is always faster.
I'm fairly sure a few guys have gone 10 flat in practice without blocks.
http://www.athletics.com.au/news/news/2008/may/vale_charlie_boothHowever on the subject of the latter, Athletics Australia historian and statistician Paul Jenes wrote in his history of Australian Athletics, ‘Fields of Green, Lanes of Gold’ that 1929 was a year of great significance as “it was the year Charlie Booth invented the starting blocks.”
According to Jenes, he invented them with help from his father when he couldn’t do starting practice on the lawn at home, as in those days athletes simply dug holes. Both professional and amateur bodies banned their use declaring them a mechanical aid, before the women’s association gave approval in 1937.
I'm guessing that the WR without blocks is in the 10.2 range from the 1930's or 40's before blocks were used.
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Has there ever been a timed 100m without using starting blocks? Obviously you'd be a fool not to use them if you want to run fast, but how fast could someone run the 100m without blocks?
A related question is "how fast could someone run 100m?", and to measure that we'd probably need to give them a 20m running start.
asparagus wrote:A related question is "how fast could someone run 100m?", and to measure that we'd probably need to give them a 20m running start.
Just look at the times for one of Bolt's anchor legs.
Basic stuff wrote:
asparagus wrote:A related question is "how fast could someone run 100m?", and to measure that we'd probably need to give them a 20m running start.Just look at the times for one of Bolt's anchor legs.
Look at the middle 100m of his 19.19.
Alan wells most probably