Response Times of Elite Sprinters

Effects of false-start disqualification rules on the response times of elite-standard sprinters. Built alongside the published paper — Brosnan, Hayes, Harrison (2016) in the Journal of Sports Sciences. Uses an Exponentially Modified Gaussian distribution to model reaction time data from World Championship and Olympic finals between 1999 and 2014.

The rule changed after Usain Bolt’s disqualification at the 2011 World Championships. This app lets you see what the data said before and after.