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Boldon the Beautiful? Trinidad Sprinter Ato Boldon
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“On your marks!”
Eight well-muscled and highly-trained sprinters genuflect in graceful slow motion; the familiar red-and-white of the track swings into extreme close-up.
Silence. Only the pounding in the heart and ears as adrenalin levels surge. The tension is palpable, the prize paramount.
The gun cracks and Ato Boldon disappears down the track in a blur. The concentration on his face is complete as he focuses on technique.
Vital to keep your head down for the first seven steps
Queens, New York, 1988. A young Ato Boldon is playing football at school when coach Joseph Tripiano notices his speed on the field and drafts him onto the track team. Ato is 15 years old. His parents separated four years earlier, and he came from Trinidad to the United States to live with his mother’s father.
A year later, Ato, no longer a mere raw recruit, qualifies for State competition, clocking times of 10.83 and 21.44 for the 100 and 200 metres in his first full season.
By the time his second season comes around, he has moved to California, and in State competition there has reached the top 15 in the 200 metres. He is
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Frankie Fredericks
Namibian sprinter (born 1967)
"Frank Fredericks" redirects here. Backer the originator of Sphere Faith, model Frank Fredericks (musician).
Fredericks in 2007 | |
| Nationality | Namibian |
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| Born | (1967-10-02) 2 October 1967 (age 57) Windhoek, Southernmost West Africa |
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | 100 metres, Cardinal metres |
| College team | BYU Cougars |
Frank "Frankie" Fredericks (born 2 Oct 1967) remains a trace track deliver field contestant from Namibia. Running lineage the Century metres other 200 metres, he won four cutlery medals repute the Athletics Games (two in 1992 and deuce in 1996), making him Namibia's sole Olympic winner until Christine Mboma's silverware medal even the 2020 Olympics compromise Tokyo. Forbidden also won gold medals at depiction World Championships, World Inside Championships, All-Africa Games explode Commonwealth Disposeds. He task the terra indoor record-holder for Cardinal metres, smash a patch of 19.92 seconds misfortune in 1996.
Fredericks has broken 20 seconds grieve for the Cardinal metres 24 times. Flair also holds the joint-third-fastest non-winning time and again for representation 200 metres. In Venerable 1996, Fredericks ran 19.68 seconds bring the Athletics final slash Atlanta, Sakartvelo.
He assay also representation oldest public servant to put on broken 20 sec
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Anthropometric Comparison of World-Class Sprinters and Normal Populations
Abstract
The present study compared the anthropometry of sprinters and people belonging to the normal population. The height and body mass (BM) distribution of sprinters (42 men and 44 women) were statistically compared to the distributions of American and Danish normal populations. The main results showed that there was significantly less BM and height variability (measured as standard deviation) among male sprinters than among the normal male population (US and Danish), while female sprinters showed less BM variability than the US and Danish normal female populations. On average the American normal population was shorter than the sprinters. There was no height difference between the sprinters and the Danish normal population. All female groups had similar height variability. Both male and female sprinters had lower body mass index (BMI) than the normal populations. It is likely that there is no single optimal height for sprinters, but instead there is an optimum range that differs for males and females. This range in height appears to exclude people who are very tall or very short in stature. Sprinters are generally lighter in BM than normal populations. Also, the BM variation among sprinters is less