Who runs faster short or tall people?

Question

I want 2 know 4 a science project who runs faster?

Answer 1

there is a two-way street involved in this question.....the taller, the more mass; the shorter, the less mass......so why do tall people run faster? because they have longer legs and their strides are bigger; however, tall people have more mass and therefore usually weigh more and that slows them down. Like in everything there is a happy medium which would be the fastest.
For the sake of the question, taller people will tend to run faster because of their longer legs and longer strides

Answer 2

The best idea, expecially if it's for a science project, is to actually do an experiment and see who's faster. However, I believe tall people generally run faster because they have longer legs.

Answer 3

Have you ever seen a short person with long legs? Not, so tall people would run faster.

Answer 4

your teacher must be PRETTY dumb to have you do a project like this. nonetheless i'll help you.

on a 100 foot dash:
short person against a tall person/
tall person wins_ why? tall people have long legs. long legs=more area to cover

on the matter of who actually runs FASTER:
short person_why? to keep up with the speed of a tall person, a short person must put on more speed on their short legs.

Answer 5

It actually depends on the momentum of how fast the person goes. There isn't exactly a real answer. But it's almost positvie theres a small percentage of taller people that run faster.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

So run how? Cross country will have longer more slender proportions, for endurence. Sprinters will have a little shorter legs for better leverage, but are very heavily muscled, for acceleration.

Answer 8

I would have to say tall people but i have no conclusive evidence to prove that this is true

Answer 9

tall

Answer 10

the answer to that would be " Do you see short people running in the olympics?"