🚨 New paper out in SJMSS!
Highly trained female runners have greater durability & resilience than performance-matched males during a 3h run with repeated maximal efforts.
Led by Diego Jaén-Carrillo.
📄Open access
🔗https://t.co/gwcvZ5Ks9F
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New open access cross sectional study by Okudaira et al "Determinants of Sprint Ability Change During Maturation in Developing Children"
https://t.co/1ZMBd2ErRD
Interesting results "Multiple regression analysis revealed that in the pre-BP group (defined as +1.1 maturity offset), leg length was the only significant predictor of max speed, primarily by influencing stride length. By contrast, in the post-BP group, MVC of knee extensors and muscle thickness emerged as significant predictors of max speed, mainly by influencing step frequency.
PhD scholarship alert: Sprint running biomechanics (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Interested in understanding how fatigue affects sprint running mechanics and injury risk: a question relevant to both modern sports performance and understanding our evolutionary past? 1/5
⚫️ RIP Ralph Mann 🇺🇸 1949-2025, 75
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World Record 440y hurdles 48.8 Des Moines 1970
🥈 400H Olympics 1972
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1971 Bachelor of Science
1975 PhD Biomechanics, Sci advisor 🇺🇸 until now, 🇨🇳 in recent years
1982 developed a patent for overlaying actual and optimal movement videos