Do tall people run faster than short people? The answer depends on many factors. It depends upon how long the legs are and how strong the muscles are. Long legs give a greater distance with each step (which is potentially slower), but require more strength to lift the longer limbs (which is potentially faster). "The running speed of a person is based on muscle strength and limb length."

Even after those facts, my hypothesis is that the short people will have the highest average time, but there will be more tall people in the Olympics. I predict this because there are two types of muscle strength, weak and strong. The majority of people have weak muscles. That means that a short person could run fast with weak muscles because their legs are lighter to move. A tall person cannot go fast if their muscles are weak because their legs are too heavy to lift fast enough. So, the majority of the short people will run faster. Though if a tall person had strong and fast muscles they would have every advantage on their side (long strides, strong and fast muscles). My hypothesis is that the shorter people will have a higher average time but the tall people will have the fastest people.

The goal of my project is to determine if tall people run faster than short people. To determine this, 5 short people are going to race a distance of 25m against 5 tall people 5 times. I will then determine which height group had the highest average time. After that, I am going to research olympians and their times and heights. I will compare my results from the race and my research. The reason I chose this project is because I am tall and I wonder if I have an advantage when I run against short people.