The science of sprinting

World Athletics has published a technical breakdown of the 100m sprint ahead of the Ultimate Championship, featuring insights from Edrick Floreal, coach of Olympic champion Julien Alfred, and former world sprint medallist Craig Pickering, now Director of Performance Sustainability at Australian Athletics. Pickering explains that the winner of the 100m is not necessarily the athlete with the best top speed or acceleration, but the one with the highest average velocity. Floreal describes the event as a complex combination of elements from the 60m, 200m, and 400m disciplines, requiring numerous factors to be executed correctly.