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World Records indicate that backward running speed could be about 35% slower than ordinary running speed (5 min 36 sec vs. 3 min 43 sec for one mile [1] [2]). Like normal running, running up and down hills backwards will add an additional degree of difficulty. Running backwards up a hill is not very dangerous.
Thomas Dold (born September 10, 1984, in Wolfach, Baden-Württemberg) is a German track and field and extreme athlete and a tower runner, stair runner, world-record holding champion backwards runner. Dold has competed a number of times in the most prestigious tower run of the world, the Empire State Building Run Up in New York.
Running can assist people in losing weight, staying in shape and improving body composition. Research suggests that the person of average weight will burn approximately 100 calories per mile run. [61] Running increases one's metabolism, even after running; one will continue to burn an increased level of calories for a short time after the run. [62]
Moving backward is also common in sports — think soccer players and referees. There are even some backward running and walking races, plus people moving in reverse while competing in famous ...
Walking backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey Plennie Lawrence Wingo (January 24, 1895 – October 2, 1993) was an American man who walked backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey , about 8,000 miles (13,000 km), from April 15, 1931 to October 24, 1932, at the age of 36.
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Ferdie Ato Adoboe (born 1964) is a Ghanaian athlete who set a Guinness World Record in 1983 for running backwards.He is also a practitioner of speed juggling, the act of kicking a soccer ball in the air as many times as possible in a short period of time.
Sumatera Utara, Indonesia Long jump: 8.09 m (±0.0 m/s) Sapwaturrahman: 26 August 2018 Asian Games: Jakarta, Indonesia [12] Triple jump: 16.21 m (−0.2 m/s) Sapwaturrahman: 10 December 2019 [c] New Clark City, Philippines [13] Shot put: 16.87 m Sukraj Singh: 1 July 1999 Jakarta, Indonesia Discus throw: 52.95 m Hermanto Hermanto: 1 July 2011 ...