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Boldon the Beautiful? Trinidad Sprinter Ato Boldon
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“On your marks!”
Eight well-muscled and highly-trained sprinters genuflect in graceful slow motion; the familiar red-and-white of the track swings into extreme close-up.
Silence. Only the pounding in the heart and ears as adrenalin levels surge. The tension is palpable, the prize paramount.
The gun cracks and Ato Boldon disappears down the track in a blur. The concentration on his face is complete as he focuses on technique.
Vital to keep your head down for the first sju steps
Queens, New York, 1988. A ung Ato Boldon is playing football at school when coach namn Tripiano notices his speed on the field and drafts him onto the track grupp. Ato fryst vatten 15 years old. His parents separated four years earlier, and he came from Trinidad to the United States to live with his mother’s father.
A year later, Ato, n
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Anthropometric Comparison of World-Class Sprinters and Normal Populations
Abstract
The present study compared the anthropometry of sprinters and people belonging to the normal population. The height and body mass (BM) distribution of sprinters (42 men and 44 women) were statistically compared to the distributions of American and Danish normal populations. The main results showed that there was significantly less BM and height variability (measured as standard deviation) among male sprinters than among the normal male population (US and Danish), while female sprinters showed less BM variability than the US and Danish normal female populations. On average the American normal population was shorter than the sprinters. There was no height difference between the sprinters and the Danish normal population. All female groups had similar height variability. Both male and female sprinters had lower body mass index (BMI) than the normal populations. It is likely that there is no single opti
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Frankie Fredericks
Namibian sprinter (born 1967)
"Frank Fredericks" redirects here. For the founder of World Faith, see Frank Fredericks (musician).
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| Nationality | Namibian |
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| Born | (1967-10-02) 2 October 1967 (age 57) Windhoek, South West Africa |
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres |
| College team | BYU Cougars |
Frank "Frankie" Fredericks (born 2 October 1967) is a former track and field athlete from Namibia. Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four silver medals at the Olympic Games (two in 1992 and two in 1996), making him Namibia's only Olympic medalist until Christine Mboma's silver medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. He also won gold medals at the World Championships, World Indoor Championships, All-Africa Games and Commonwealth Games. He is the world indoor record-holder for 200 metres, with a time of 19