Usain Bolt no match for horse power – professor
Defending Olympic champion Usain Bolt may live on the fastest human on 2 legs, but he would fighting to outpace a raft of animals, including horses, which would exit him nearly 10 seconds behind over 200 metres.
A light-hearted comparing of the extraordinary athleticism of humans as well as animals published inwards the journal, Veterinary Record, shows that many animals trump humans for speed, forcefulness as well as endurance, fifty-fifty those who display extraordinary Olympian athleticism.
Jamaican sprinter Bolt, currently the fastest human being inwards the world, could non tally greyhounds, cheetahs, pronghorn antelope, as well as horses for sheer pace.
Professor Craig Sharp, from the Centre for Sports Medicine as well as Human Performance at Brunel University inwards Britain, has highlighted a gain of animals whose speed as well as forcefulness easily beats that of our most elite athletes.
Humans tin give the axe run at a maximum speed of 23.4 miles per lx minutes (37.6kmh) or 10.4 metres per second. That variety of speed gives them the egde – but solely merely – over the Dromedary camel, amongst a top speed of 22mph (35.3kmh), or 9.8 metres/second.
A chetah is approximately twice equally fast equally the world’s top sprinters at 64mph (104kmh), or 29 metres per second, but the pronghorn antelope also puts inwards a really respectable 55mph (89kmh), or 24.6 metres/second.
And allow us non forget the North African ostrich, which, at 40mph (64kmh) or eighteen metres per second, is the world’s fastest-running bird.
Sailfish tin give the axe laissez passer on a swimming speed of 67mph (108kmh) or xxx metres per second.
Then, of course, at that spot are thoroughbred racehorses, the fastest of which has managed 55mph (88kmh), as well as greyhounds at 43mph (69kmh).
And birds would win a few gilded medals too.
Peregrine falcons tin give the axe laissez passer on speeds of 161mph (259kmh), piece ducks as well as geese competition cheetahs, amongst speeds of 64mph (103kmh) inwards score flight.
And when it comes to power, pheasant as well as grouse tin give the axe generate 400 watts per kilogram — v times equally powerful equally trained athletes. The tiny hummingbird tin give the axe cope 200 watts per kg.
And inwards damage of strength, an African elephant tin give the axe elevator 300kg amongst its torso as well as send 820kg. H5N1 grizzly deport tin give the axe elevator 455kg, piece a gorilla tin give the axe elevator a whopping 900kg.
Human beings accept adapted fantastically good to marathons as well as long distance running, aided past times long legs, curt toes, arched feet as well as ample fuel storage capacity, Sharp says.
But they powerfulness observe it difficult to vanquish camels, which tin give the axe keep speeds of 10mph (16kmh) for over eighteen hours, or Siberian huskies, which laid upwards a tape inwards 2011, racing for 8 days, nineteen hours, as well as 47 minutes, roofing 114 miles a day.
For the record:
- Usain Bolt ran 100 metres inwards 9.58 seconds; a chetah ran the same distance inwards 5.8 seconds
- Usain Bolt ran 200 metres inwards 19.19 seconds; a chetah covered the same distance inwards 6.9 seconds, the Australian racehorse Black Caviar inwards 9.98 seconds, as well as a greyhound inwards 11.2 seconds.
- Michael Johnson ran the 400 metres inwards 43.18 seconds compared amongst 19.2 seconds for a racehorse as well as 21.4 seconds for a greyhound.
- David Rushida ran 800 metres inwards i infinitesimal 41 seconds, compared amongst 33 seconds for the pronghorn antelope as well as 49.2 seconds for a greyhound.
- An endurance Equus caballus ran a amount marathon inwards i lx minutes eighteen minutes as well as 29 seconds, compared amongst the 2 hours, iii minutes as well as 38 2nd tape of Patrick Makau Musyoki.
- In the long jump, a carmine kangaroo has leapt 12.8 metres compared to the 8.95 metres Mike Powell achieved. Its high limit of 3.1 metres exceeds Javier Sotomayor’s at 2.45, who is also trumped past times the snakehead fish, which tin give the axe saltation four metres out of the water
“Citius, Althius, Fortius [Faster, Higher, Stronger] is the Olympic motto, but if nosotros allowed the residue of the beast kingdom into the Games, as well as it was to conduct the peregrine falcon (161 mph), Ruppel’s vulture (37,000 feet) as well as the 190 ton blueish whale equally its representatives, nosotros could non offering much competition,” writes Sharp.
“Or fifty-fifty if restricted to terrestrial animals, nosotros could live on upwards against the chetah (65mph), the carmine kangaroo (3.1 metres) as well as the 12-ton bull African elephant.”
But no unmarried species matches the physical versatility of human beings, he concludes, as well as that is what the Games are designed to display to best effect.
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