t-and-f: National Depth--Horizontal Jumps
The tables that follow summarize the number of athletes each country placed in the world top-100 rankings for 2002 (plus ties) and the highest-ranked of these for each event. Since one or two placings may represent only exceptional individuals, rather than national program strength, I've condensed the lists to countries with three placings or more. The data base drawn upon is the world list from Mirko Jalava's web site http://www.tilastopaja.com/. MEN'S LONG JUMP 2002WOMEN'S LONG JUMP 2002 Country Top 103 Highest Country Top 102 Highest United States 13 1 Russia 16 1 China7 13 United States 12 35 Russia 7 18 China9 18 Cuba 6 4 Germany 8 7 France 6 15 Ukraine 5 19 Greece 5 23 Brazil 3 3 Great Britain4 5 Spain3 5 Ukraine 4 7 Greece 3 6 Brazil 4 51 Nigeria 3 30 Spain3 9 Italy3 78 Croatia 3 14 Saudi Arabia 3 27 Germany 3 49 Portugal 3 62 40 countries represented36 countries represented 100th = 7.88m (25'10 1/4) 100th = 6.41 (21' 1/4) MEN'S TRIPLE JUMP 2002 WOMEN'S TRIPLE JUMP 2002 Country Top 100 Highest Country Top 102 Highest United States 13 4 Russia 15 3 Russia 9 9 China 11 6 Cuba 7 8 Ukraine 6 8 France 6 23 Belarus 5 10 China6 44 Cuba 5 13 Great Britain5 1 Romania 4 11 Brazil 5 19 Brazil 4 16 Greece 4 7 United States4 27 Japan4 39 Greece 4 29 Belarus 3 20 Italy3 4 Ukraine 3 21 Jamaica 3 18 Germany 3 59 36 countries represented39 countries represented 100th = 16.35m (53'7 1/2) 100th = 13.55m (44'5 1/4)
t-and-f: National Depth--Horizontal Jumps
The charts that follow summarize the number of athletes each country placed in the world top-100 rankings for 2001 (plus ties) and the highest-ranked of these for each event. Since one or two placings may represent only exceptional individuals, rather than national program strength, I've truncated the lists to countries with three placings or more. The data base drawn upon is the world list from Mirko Jalava's web site http://www.tilastopaja.com/. MEN'S Long Jump 2001WOMEN'S Long Jump 2001 Country Top 103 Highest Country Top 101 Highest United States 19 3 Russia 16 1 China8 9 China 10 23 France 6 23 United States 10 34 Russia 5 5 Germany 6 13 Greece 5 68 Jamaica 5 17 Germany 4 19 Italy4 2 Spain4 29 Australia4 7 Japan4 30 France 3 3 Australia4 43 Greece 3 12 Cuba 3 2 Ukraine 3 33 Czech Republic 3 28 Poland 3 48 South Africa 3 58 Italy3 85 39 countries represented32 countries represented 100th = 7.88m = 25' 10 1/4100th = 6.39m = 20' 11 1/2 MEN'S Triple Jump 2001 WOMEN'S Triple Jump 2001 Country Top 101 Highest Country Top 100 Highest United States 12 9 Russia 15 1 Russia 11 3 China 13 3 China7 20 Romania 7 5 France 6 14 Italy6 8 Cuba 5 4 United States5 23 Ukraine 5 40 Ukraine 4 13 Great Britain4 1 Greece 4 34 Bulgaria 4 23 Brazil 4 41 Japan4 48 Finland 3 15 Greece 3 12 Jamaica 3 30 Brazil 3 13 Romania 3 16 Germany 3 25 Kazakhstan 3 35 38 countries represented35 countries represented 100th = 16.34m = 53' 7 1/4 100th = 13.52m = 44' 4 1/4
t-and-f: National Depth--Horizontal Jumps
The charts summarize the number of athletes each country placed in the world top 100 rankings for 2000 (plus ties) and the highest-ranked of these. Since one or two placings may represent only exceptional individuals, rather than national program strength, I've truncated the lists to three placings or more. The data base drawn upon is the world list from Mirko Jalava's web site http://www.tilastopaja.com/. MEN'S LONG JUMP 2000WOMEN'S LONG JUMP 2000 Country Top 100 Highest Country Top 100 Highest United States 23 2 United States 17 3 France 8 18 Russia 11 2 Cuba 5 1 China7 9 China5 29 Jamaica 5 28 Germany 4 25 Kazakhstan 5 39 Canada 4 27 Ukraine 4 4 Italy4 72 Germany 4 7 Australia3 3 Great Britain4 38 Ukraine 3 6 France 3 18 Russia 3 8 Romania 3 19 Greece 3 41 Greece 3 22 Armenia 3 43 Canada 3 52 37 countries represented32 countries represented 100th = 7.91m = 25' 11 1/4" 100th = 6.46m = 21' 2 1/4" MEN'S TRIPLE JUMP 2000 WOMEN'S TRIPLE JUMP 2000 Country Top 103 Highest Country Top 100 Highest Russia 12 4 Russia 17 1 United States 12 11 China 14 14 Cuba 9 3 Ukraine 7 4 France 6 24 United States6 48 Great Britain5 1 Cuba 5 10 Bulgaria 4 8 Romania 5 12 China4 35 Jamaica 5 38 Italy3 2 Bulgaria 3 2 Germany 3 6 Greece 3 21 Greece 3 12 Italy3 42 Brazil 3 48 France 3 69 42 countries represented34 countries represented 100th = 16.40m = 53' 9 1/2" 100th = 13.64m = 44' 9" When I first started keeping track of national depth on the world list, after the 1996 Olympics, my primary interest was in trying to identify "centers of coaching excellence" of the sort represented by the sprinters of Santa Monica TC, Maurice Houvion's French vaulters, or more recently by HSI. I found locating most such clusters to be frustrated by the sheer weight of population and national wealth factors in determining top-100 numbers. The men's triple-jump data remind me of that original interest, for two reasons. I think of the triple as one of the more technical events, where good coaching and event-specific weight training should make a big difference. For the top 100 athletes to include representation from 42 countries tends to argue a greater importance of physical ability than of coaching. On the other hand, though, the Cuban data may present an example of coaching effectiveness. For a country with 1/25 the population of the U.S. to have three-quarters as many triple jumpers in the top-100 world rankings suggests that somebody in Cuba knows a lot about coaching the event. Can anyone shed any light on the matter?
t-and-f: National Depth--Horizontal Jumps, Long Throws, etc.
These data are ready to post, but I think I'll save them for a day or two. It seems a shame to interrupt important threads like "standing vs. sitting to watch track meets" and "coke vs. water." Incidentally, "coke vs. water" made the rounds of the joke posts a month ago. Who ever would have dreamed that anyone would take it seriously? Cheers
