Starting blocks
Tacos de salida
- Date
- 1929 · confidence medium
- Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Credited to
- Charlie Booth
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Device with adjustable footrests that sprinters brace against at the start of a race to avoid slipping and adopt a more efficient starting posture, improving power and speed off the line; now mandatory in top-level track and field.
What it led to
- improved starting times in track and field
- standard regulation of sprint races
- electronic false-start sensors
- modern sprint biomechanics