Abstract

It is widely accepted that sports technology has made a major contribution to human athletic performance. In order to quantify the effect of sports technology one must first understand the influence of other factors. Human athletic performance is also related to the number of participants competing. As such it is hypothesised that the size of the global human population will be factor in athletic performance. Human performance in running events has been correlated with global gender population size. The data shows exponential decay trends which have been subsequently modelled using an exponential decay function (t = L+ aexp-bP). Results show that a further increase in global population will have little or no effect on running performances.