Is Fanbulleh's stride 3.3m?

I tried measuring his last few strides of the 100m semis (using the 1m line markings on the track) and he's over 3m. Insane stride length. Bolt was right around 3m, I think Fanbulleh has a larger stride. Crazy. If he improves his stride frequency he could be a GOAT

Do you have a reference for Bolt’s stride being 3m? He’d complete the 100 in about 41 steps that’s just under 2.5m on average. His max step length averaged, say, over any 3 consecutive steps would be higher, but it doesn’t seem as high as 3m, at least going by this video. He seems to split steps as 22/19 or 21/20 across the halfway mark.

Let's make an effort to spell the names of athletes correctly.

stride length x stride rate = speed

An elite 100 runner going 10 m/s isn't gonna speed up after 60 meters. All they can do is try to stay close to 10m/s.

If they are going 3m strides at 3.33 strides/s, and they increase to 4 strides/s, all that will happen is their stride is reduced to 2.5m.

Elite 100m runners are going 10m/s about 25m into the race, and are regularly 11.7+m/s at top speed. Some of them continue to accelerate past 60m. For example, Marcel Jacobs in his 9.80 had his top speed about 70m into the race, and it was 12m/s.

Also, most sprinters are in the ballpark of 4.5 strides/second. Tim Montgomery used to have the highest recorded (just over 5), while Bolt was 4.1-4.3, as he was consistently about 41 strides.

However, you're correct that changing stride length will in general have the inverse effect on frequency, though in the case of Fahnbulleh, I'm fairly confident his stride length vs. frequency is not optimal for him.

I think the guy is actually a 400m cat but just doesn't know it.

Keep in mind many sprinters take 11 steps or more in the first 20m, it takes a while to get going. I've also heard bolts stride was 2.95m at its peak I'll try to find the study.

Hard to say.

Overstriding is a problem in any ody, but it isn’t a question of where the footstrike is, it is a question of biomechanics and when/how force is applied. Many thought that Gatlin overstrided, but I think that most of the time, he didn’t—he really pawed the ground , rather than hammering into it like Dix, and maybe now Steiner (maybe).

Same thing Fahnbulleh. He has the soft touch. Shortening his stride would IMO mean a biomechanical overhaul. Personally I would guess that he would improve if it were done correctly, but that’s just guessing.

Where it really gets him is on early acceleration, where he has a TON of issues, where do I start. That might just be the kind of sprinter he is. He is NO Bolt, that’s for sure. Maybe he could get closer with the right supps, in fact I would bet that he could.

It’s a huge project. He’s a 200m sprinter, and maybe a good 400 guy. In a world of clean athletes, he would be near the very top of the 100m, IMO, but as it stands his 100m race is fatally incomplete.

He is sort of like a Lemaitre 2.0, although with an almost 0.20 slower recorded 60m, maybe more like a Tommie Smith 2.0. He also had a similar stride. Lemaitre’s was iirc second to only Bolt’s in the modern era, but both he and Bolt had a better acceleration footstrike than Fahnbulleh.

O.P. disrespected the young man for not bothering to spell Joseph Fahnbulleh correctly and I received the down arrow? Clowns, just clowns.

Thanks, makes sense. Around 2.8 is what I was getting eyeballing it as well. Based on the video I linked, it seemed like his max stride was at most 15% higher, but not 20%, than average.

I used 10 m/s so people can do the easy math in their head.

Most runners don't understand how hard it is to have a stride rate 4/s or above. I couldn't do 4.5

That 19.83 a new Florida school record.

Saw Fahnbullah run at Minnesota sections and state meets in Minnesota. You could see it then that he was going to be a world beater.

He s mostly my favorite sprinter. You know the train is coming 2/3 into the race, and it is a joy to watch him pass by everybody like they are running in quicksand. He s pretty unique. It s so good to root for him. And I am not from the US or from Liberia.

You can only increase your speed when a foot is in contact with the ground, kinda like downhill skiers don't like too jump to long because they can't pick up extra speed as long as they're in the air, that's why I'd be much more interested to know how much force he put's into the ground compared to other runners.

It’s insane he’s even running 10.0 with his start. His future 200 best is going to be impressive.

If he doesn't get a high hamstring tear. Lotta force there and he is getting older every day

Is this the part where LetsRun fanboys speculate on Fahnbulleh in the 800m?