LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:12 December 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Runners, To Your Marks:
Why Women’s Speed is Sprinting Ahead!
Trend Analysis

Selvi Bunce

Abstract

This paper attempts to show how women in the world are gaining momentum in sports, just as they are doing in many other fields. Opportunities to compete in many field games as team players, and track athletes have been increasing in the world; this has greatly galvanized a tremendous number of women to move forward to train and compete in many sports meets, including the Olympics. They are performing better and more efficiently as athletes and the world is being forced to change its opinion of women as being not good enough to be considered as equal with men athletes on the sports arena. This paper tries to analyze the new trend among the women athletes to train harder and beat their own and others’ records and rise up as fine, strong athletes worthy of accolades.

Keywords: Elite Training, Women’s Marathon Record, Sprinting Events, Increased Speed, Gender Equality, Female Speed

Women Are Getting Faster!

“SHE’S DONE IT! “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FASTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!” It is the year 2156 and the Olympic 100 meter dash has just been won by a woman. This may be a stretch, but it is undeniable that women are getting faster, and are just as capable in elite training as men. Over the last thirty years, women’s speed has been improving at high rates, and often, at rates faster than men. Since 1955 the women’s marathon record has improved by 61%, while in the same time period, the men’s record has only improved by 18% (Hilgers). With numbers such as these, female athletes demand recognition. Women are improving in speed in a wide range of events, and as the next generation of Olympians begins to take over, light is being shed on the immense improvements women are bound to experience.

Why Are Women Getting So Fast So Quickly?

So why are women getting to move so fast so quickly? There are many reasons. In 1928, all women’s events longer than 200 meters were eliminated from the Olympics, and it was not until 2008 that women were given the opportunity to compete in all the same Olympic events as men on the track (Epstein). Rumors of the incapacity of women to train without fatal injury ran rampant until recent years. In 1967 Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, only to have women banned from the race the following years until 1972 (Jones). Clearly, female athletes have exceeded their critics’ predictions, as well as the few supporters’ expectations, and will undoubtedly continue to do so in the future.

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Selvi Bunce c/o. languageinindia@gmail.com
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