I was reading through the various sports forum and found an interesting thread. It’s about sprinter height to weight ratio.

It seems that most top sprinters, according to the stats book that recorded their height and weight, all points to them being ‘light’.

For example, Shawn Crawford, standing at 1.81m is 75kg! Surprised? Well most of the top international sprinters are well within that ‘light’ height to weight ratio.

Here’s a few more sprinters with their height/weight stats.

Deji Aliu (Nigeria) 1.87m 75kg

Deji Aliu

Ato Boldon (Trinidad & Tobago) 1.76m 75kg

Ato Boldon

Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 1.96m 75kg

Usain Bolt

Darrell Brown (Trinidad & Tobago) 1.84m 70kg

Darrell Brown

Darren Campbell (Britain) 1.80m 72kg

Darren Campbell

Shawn Crawford (USA) 1.81m 75kg

Shawn Crawford

Marlon Devonish (Britain) 1.83m 76kg

Marlon Devonish

Jason Gardener (Britain) 1.78m 70kg

Jason Gardener

Maurice Greene (USA) 1.76m 75kg

Maurice Greene

Darvis Patton (USA) 1.83m 75kg

Darvis Patton

So what say you?