This would put it in 4th place on that all-time list – a very encouraging performance in the lead up to the next Olympics (4)
This calculation does not take into account the fact that there are many athletic events where the WRs have stood for 30 or more years and no athletes from any country have got close to breaking the records in those events. In some of those events these record performances have been subject to alleged use of performance croatia phone number enhancing drugs. Percentage based performances in these events are therefore naturally lower and it may have been a fairer comparison to find the world best performances in the last 15 years in those events, and compare to them.
One interesting exercise with this data is to try and do a bit of forward prediction and see if we can identify athletes who might be potential medal winners at the Paris 2024 Olympics and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
To do this, I first looked at some of our most successful recent senior athletes who have also registered junior performances since 2006. This gives us a good idea of the level of junior performance needed that might turn into podium performances later. There are several metrics within the data that we can look at:
the level of WR% performance in various junior age group performances
the UK Rank of the performances in each year
is there a clear progression of improvement throughout their junior ranks
how old will the athlete be in the relevant Olympic year
I have chosen 3 athletes whose performances I think meet these characteristics.