Brush shoe
The brush shoe ( English brush spikes ) was one of the company Puma developed in the late 1960s running shoe , its use in competitions by the International Association of Athletics Federations was prohibited (IAAF).
description
In the run-up to the Summer Olympics in Mexico City in 1968 , the brush shoe was developed by Puma in Herzogenaurach . The reason for this was that the running competitions were held for the first time on a plastic track ( tartan track ). At the time, it was common to have four or six spikes ("thorns") on the sole of running shoes. The brush shoe, on the other hand, had 68 needle-like spikes on the front half of the outsole instead of nail-shaped spikes, in order to enable sprinters in particular to better grip the ground on plastic tracks. After the first use in the first running competitions in the summer of 1968, extraordinary world best times were achieved with the brush shoe. According to the IAAF rules, running shoes with more than eleven thorns were and are still prohibited. In the wake of the records, a discussion broke out about whether the thin needles of the brush shoe were spikes at all. Even after massive intervention by Puma competitor Adidas , the IAAF saw thorns in the needle-like spikes of the brush shoe and banned the brush shoe before the 1968 Summer Olympics. The world records achieved were not recognized. Puma produced a total of around 200 pairs of brush shoes.
The unrecognized world records from 1968 include:
- 19.92 s at 200 m by John Carlos , scored at the US Olympic Trials (athletics)
- 44.4 s over 400 m by Vince Matthews , two weeks before the US Olympic Trials
- 44.0 s over 400 m by Lee Evans , achieved at the US Olympic Trials on September 14, 1968 in South Lake Tahoe
In other sports, such as skeleton and bobsleigh , brush shoes are allowed pieces of equipment.
further reading
- Donald W. Wood: An Experimental Test of the Puma Model Number 296 Brush Spike Shoe and the Mexico Puma Model Number 295 Standard Four Spike Shoe as to Their Effect on Sprint Running. Ohio University, August, 1972, 74 pp.
Individual evidence
- ↑ B. Smit: The Dasslers: Three strips against Puma. Bastei Lübbe, 2007, ISBN 978-3-404-61608-4 , p. 92. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ U. Jonath: Practice of Athletics. Bartels & Wernitz, 1973, p. 11.
- ↑ a b B. Cooper: True Obsession. In: Runner's World. April 2008, p. 76. Limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ R. Hymans: The History of the United State Olympic Trials - Track & Field. (PDF; 4.1 MB) At: usatf.org 2008, pp. 138–138.
- ↑ 2011 National Track & Field Hall of Fame Class - Vince Matthews. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.3 MB) In: BSTM. December 2011, p. 35.
- ↑ dpa: His world record lasted 20 years: Lee Evans is 60. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from February 25, 2007
