In any event, it’s not like when you jump straight up while standing, so that your feet only get 30 or 40 centimeters off the ground.
This link with a picture of Amy Acuff may be more interesting. At least to look at.
Yes, the high jumper may not ever be all above the ceiling in my home, but how could a high jumper get to 2.45 meters without getting some part of his body over that.
My point was that the room I’m in has an 8 foot ceiling. If someone is trying to high jump 8 feet, he’s going to hit the ceiling.
I thought they still kept the mile for sentimental reasons (i.e. the infamous 4-minute mile).
Yes, the mile is still a contested distance.
The 1500 meters is erroneously called “the metric mile” even though it is quite a bit short of a mile. But tracks a long time ago were 500 meters around instead of 400, so that distance has persisted. There seems to be no demand to run the 1600 meters.
Perhaps track-and-field distances should all be measured in fractions of a Marathon.
10,000 meters = 0.23699497 Marathons
5000 meters = 0.11849749 Marathons
1500 meters = 0.035549246 Marathons
800 meters = 0.018959598 Marathons
400 meters = 0.0094797989 Marathons
200 meters = 0.0047398994 Marathons
100 meters = 0.0023699497 Marathons
4.2194988 centimeters = 1 micromarathon