I have been looking online for Any of the arsenal players sprint test times with no luck. My younger brother watches American football and is always blabbering on about their 40 times and how they're the fastest athelets around. I explain that the likes of Walcott, Defoe, Jenas, WRight-Phillips, etc... Could easily hold there own with any pro football star. Sadly without showing him any timed results the argument is locked In a bloody stalemate. So if any of you could give me the prems fastest players times, more specifically Walcott I would greatly appreciate shoving my bros foot in his mouth.
taken from a times article (walcott)... "By 14 he was doing 100m in 11.7sec and outpacing contemporaries in terms of development, playing for Southampton Under-17s at 13" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/arsenal/article648824.ece# well, here is another article about theo's speed. http://blog.taragana.com/sports/200...emier-leagues-answer-to-lightning-bolt-21993/
Seems like Walcott really picked up his pace more recently. 11.7 seconds for the 100m at age 14 is rather poor (for an athlete).
Err..at age 14 running an 11.7 is pretty quick. I can guarantee you no NON athlete can run that, and even some EPL players probably can't hit that pace.
This interview says that he ran Arsenal's 40m sprint test in 4.7seconds. http://www.accessinterviews.com/interviews/detail/theo-walcott/16746 NFL uses yards though so have fun converting that.
not to get into it rewind.. but "The record for a middle school 100 meter dash is 11.04 seconds, held by Derek Tompkins at Union Vale Middle School. A good time ranges from 12 seconds to under 14.5 seconds."
I went to school in South Africa. Our #1 sprinter in grade 7 ran a 10.8 (but he was a year older than everyone else).
That's 43.7 yards, which extrapolates (assuming a linear speed, which is a little silly) to 4.3 second 40 yard dash. Means he's about as fast as the fastest NFL players, which is what you'd think.
Our school seemed to attract a lot of freak athletes despite explicitly stating they don't give a crap about any sport but swimming. We routinely had U13s who would get called up the U18 national team training camps, and had others who were fixtures on the U18 national team in ice hockey.
Sounds like your school was the extreme exception, rather than the rule. So, to say that 11.7 is "poor" is a bit . . . disingenuous, don't you think?
I still say it is not that impressive relative to his ability to be a sub 10 second sprinter right now.
Maybe, but I'd also say that what someone is capable of at 14 and what they're capable of as a grown individual are two incredibly different things. There have been countless cases of kids that are freak athletes at that age, but couldn't be freak athletes later in life. They peaked early. So he ran a "slow" time at 14. There's absolutely no doubt that he's one of the fastest players in the Prem now. I don't think that the two things have very much to do with each other.
Yeah, I went with Windhoek (in practice, do people consider that an import?) and was happy with the choice.
I thought i read someplace that Gavin Hoyte was the fastest guy in the team sprints. I tried to find the article and couldn't, but i did read his mother was a sprinter as well.
Yeah I definitely read this too. Sprinting and sprinting with the ball are two very different things though; I wonder whether they run trials with a ball at their feet as well, that would be interesting to see.