carlsson
Veteran Member
The European Athletics Championships starts in a week. Prior to that, the (Swedish) hosts have web pages with all the nominated athletes and so on, plus lists of the best European performers this season. While browsing through the latter list, I found this result quite amusing:
Long jump, women. Wind assisted marks
578.00 m (+2.9 m/s) Zuzana Lunterová (SVK), 2nd place in national competition
It appears someone submitted the result in cm instead of meter, and the results are automatically added to the database. Without the wind, her personal best is "only" 5.94m. If it hadn't been a typo, one wonders which kind of jet engine she had on her back, and how the arrangers were able to measure the jump... not to mention how far the winner jumped!
For those who don't know, the maximum allowed tailwind for setting records is +2.0 m/s. The result though is still valid in the actual competition. Too much tailwind might be a disadvantage, as you could fall to the ground while e.g. running. There is no limitation on headwind.
Long jump, women. Wind assisted marks
578.00 m (+2.9 m/s) Zuzana Lunterová (SVK), 2nd place in national competition
It appears someone submitted the result in cm instead of meter, and the results are automatically added to the database. Without the wind, her personal best is "only" 5.94m. If it hadn't been a typo, one wonders which kind of jet engine she had on her back, and how the arrangers were able to measure the jump... not to mention how far the winner jumped!
For those who don't know, the maximum allowed tailwind for setting records is +2.0 m/s. The result though is still valid in the actual competition. Too much tailwind might be a disadvantage, as you could fall to the ground while e.g. running. There is no limitation on headwind.