Yesterday I hit upon the statistics egroup and immediately joined. I have
only read one message up to now, an interesting one with many national
records of womens high jumping. The Dutch record stated there is incorrect,
it is not 1.87 but 1.88m jumped by three jumpers:
Mieke van Doorn born 1954-12-24 jumped 1.88 in Utrecht at 1975-08-17
Mirjam van Laar born 1956-09-24 jumped 1.88 in Sittard at 1977-07-31
Monique van der Weide born 1963-11-28 jumped 1.88 in Diekirch at 1990-07-21

The statistics I have done myself is mostly about high jumping and age.
I've concentrated on the women (because that was already so difficult to
get more complete, that I forgot the men for a moment). I like to have the
youngest and oldest of the world that has jumped a certain height. That
leads to a curve, of course going up from age zero, reaching a top in the
twenties, and rapidly declining after say age 35. It contains in fact age
records without artificial age classes. Especially the youth records are
very duifficult to obtain, so if anyone knows national or regional records
of the very young I'm very interested to recieve them! With exact date of
birth, and date and place of the high jumping meet. I use those dates to
calculate age in decimal years.
The curve also shows which records are more outstanding than others. It
happens that the age class I myself was in last year has one of the best
records (Debbie Brill from Canada jumping 1.76 at age 46) while my new age
class this year has one of the weakest records. That made it possible for
me to equal the world record with 1.55 at age 50. Never dreamed about that!
But within 3 years Debbie turns 50 too...

Weia Reinboud
Utrecht / Netherlnads