RESEARCH ON MEN'S 100M PERFORMANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES (2004 - 2021)
Keywords:
Olympic Games, 100 m, men, achievements, resultsAbstract
The Olympic Games are considered the biggest sporting event in the world. They gather hundreds of the best athletes in the world. The men's 100m event in athletics is one of the most thrilling and fiercely contested competitions at the Summer Olympic Games. In this study, we analyze the sports achievements in this discipline across the last five Olympic Games from 2004 to 2021. In sports practice, speed reflects the ability to move through space at the highest possible speed. In this sense, it manifests itself most clearly in the sprint disciplines. Running 100 meters is not only a sports discipline, but also a way to assess the individual speed of each athlete. The 100m sprint is a short but incredibly intense race. Elite athletes use all their skill, speed, agility and strength to run at top speed for around 10 seconds. Added to this, athletes must also demonstrate precise technique, balance and timing to ensure they get the fastest possible time while also avoiding disqualification. Athletes achieve a balance between speed and stride length. At this point of the race, they hit their maximum speed. The focus is then on maintaining this speed for as long as possible and attempting to ignore any feelings of pain, discomfort or fatigue. Our objective is to trace the state of the sporting results in the men's 100m. The tasks we have set ourselves are to study the change in sports results for the period 2004-2021, as well as to analyze the main schools by nations developing sprinting. Our findings indicate a high level of performance consistency among the top six finishers. The champions' times range from 9.63 seconds to 9.85 seconds, with a range of 0.22 seconds and an average of 9.75 seconds. The sprinters from the USA performed the best in the finals of the Olympic Games. The analysis of these results supports the conclusion that the men's 100m event is the most spectacular and competitive, confirmed by the high sporting standards of the results presented.
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