New rules for competition shoes - magazine - #1 running sports platform in Austria

After Eliud Kipchoge's marathon world record run in the Vienna Prater, his marathon running shoes are criticized.The World Athletics Association International Athletics Association has set up new rules for competition shoes.This means that Kipchoges record shoe is compliant, but the specific model 1:59 is not.

The association has now presented new standards for road running shoes in the future.So the sole must not be thicker than 40 millimeters and it must not be in the shoe more than a plate.This can be divided into several pieces, but for example, must not lie on top of each other or overlap.The shoes in which Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei have run their world records in Berlin and Chicago.The exception is the model with which Kipchoge in Vienna used in his already not legal race, in which he ran under two hours for the first time.

New running shoe models must be in retail four months

Another innovation of World Athletics says that new models have been offered on stores for at least four months before they can be carried by elite athletes in competition.

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