On May 5, Beijing time, there was an interesting scene at the Mito Athletics Invitational In Japan, encountering a super headwind in the most watched 100-meter race.
The elementary school group reached -5 m/s in the competition, and at one point blew the children on the track to the ground. The senior preliminaries encountered a large headwind of -8.3 m/s, and Japanese sprinter Ryota Yamagata ran a time of 10.95 seconds. The final was a big headwind of -4.7 m/s, and Ryota Yamagata won the championship in 10.71 seconds, and after the game he said: "It was the best training for me, it felt like running against the wall. ”
Ryota Yamagata is aiming to run 10.05 seconds ahead of the Olympic trials in June to reach the men's 100m standard for the Tokyo Olympics. The wind on the scene today was too strong, which had a very big impact on the performance of the participants, and even sports fans were discussing whether Bolt could reach the 10.05 Tokyo Olympic standard at -4.7 m/s if he took out his peak state.
According to the formula of 1 m/s downwind to 100 m performance to improve the performance of 100 meters by 0.05 seconds, a trapeze artist who can run into 9.80 seconds with zero wind speed in the 100 meters event can theoretically run 10.05 seconds when encountering a headwind speed of -5.0 m/s.
Ryota Yamagata said after the game today: "Occasionally this situation is encountered, and whether or not you can run well under such conditions is also very important to the athletes, so it is a good exercise." I did hope to run to 10.05 seconds in this game, which is a bit of a pity, but then there is a chance, I hope to switch my mentality and cheer up. ”
Ryota Ryota Akira Yamagata, 28, ran 10.14 seconds (+0.1 m/s) at the Oda Memorial Race in Hiroshima on April 29, where he ran 10.00 seconds in the final of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, where Su Won in 9.92 seconds. Ryota Yamagata will not participate in the May 9 Test Match for the Tokyo Olympics, and his next match will be the Japan Enterprise Championship on May 15, when he will play against famous players such as Cambridge Asuka and Shota Iizuka.