Exact date humans will reach their peak athletic form revealed – and it's sooner than you might think
PEAK PERFORMANCE Exact date humans will reach their peak athletic form revealed – and it's sooner than you might think
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HUMANS will reach peak athletic form by the year 3000, scientists predict.
They believe we are nearing the limits of physical performance in many sports, such as the 100 metre sprint.
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen was one of two people to break the mile record in February
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But runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen was one of two people to break the mile record in February.
Asked when records will stop being broken, sports engineer Prof Steve Haake of Sheffield Hallam University, said: 'We're kind of hitting that now.
"But we're also looking at where we get to 99.99 per cent of the infinite limit.
"And it's years away in events, like swimming.
"By 3000 I'm pretty certain we'll have reached the limit of performance.'
3000 would be the Olympics and men's football Euros.
Physiologist Dr Emma Ross added: 'Eliud Kipchoge broke the two-hour marathon, but it required the right surface, time of day, climate, shoes and pacers.
"It wasn't within regulations.
'I wonder if the rules will have to change because the people at the top now are as close to being perfect specimens as we'll get.'
Other experts have warned that by 3000 we might have a 'tech neck' hunch and claw hand from craning over phones.
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