mbodna t1_iu6puez wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:38 PM Reply to comment by Accomplished-Fig745 in TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed. by The_Critical_Cynic From this article it says it was determined by 8 Finnish runners but didn't specify if they were collegiate runners. "The 100 ms limit is based on research from the 1990s in which the total response time of eight male Finnish sprinters was investigated [2]." Permalink Parent 2
mbodna t1_iu6puez wrote
Reply to comment by Accomplished-Fig745 in TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed. by The_Critical_Cynic
From this article it says it was determined by 8 Finnish runners but didn't specify if they were collegiate runners.
"The 100 ms limit is based on research from the 1990s in which the total response time of eight male Finnish sprinters was investigated [2]."