The current spacing between hurdles is 30 ft for the men and 27.9 ft for the
women. This requires the men to scrunch their strides to 90%, which
translates to 77% of their sprint stride, and the women have to scrunch to
94%, which is 85% of their sprint stride. If we were to open the spacing up
to 31.2 ft for the men and 28.5 for the women it would increase the scrunch
to 98% for both, requiring 83% of the men's sprint stride, and 87% of the
women. The required stride length now is 6.5 ft for men, and 6.7 for the
women. The prescribed changes would change those strides to 7 ft men, and
6.9 for the women. The change in the women's is also coupled with the change
in hurdle height.
The need for these changes are fundamental as well as, productive. As it
stands in the men's race, we are approaching limitations because of the
requirements of the race. Requirements that are believed to be overly
restrictive. We cannot keep changing to accommodate progress, but the way
the current races are set, it is working against the event rather than for it.
DGS
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