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Bobsledders are the fastest athletes in the world. American football players are fast too but the average speed of a bobsled team is much higher than that of any other team for any other sport except teams in Track and Field.

In the Bobsled combine athletes must perform a one rep max in the clean and the squat as well as a 60m sprint. Their 30m time and their 30m fly times are recorded electronically. Athletes start with their heel on the starting line (their foot in front of the line effectively), standing. I'm not sure how deep of a squat these athletes perform because I have seen some youtube videos of half squats performed by bobsledding athletes.

Here is an example of a bobsled athlete testing his 60m:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqMHfxHAzrM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqMHfxHAzrM</a>

They are scored out of 800 points. An athlete may receive a maximum of 100 points in eight categories: 15m time, 30m time, 60m time, 30m flying time, squat, clean, shot toss, and broad jump.

Point awarded to athletes are based on how well they perform. These numbers are found here after clicking on "Combine Test Score Sheet": http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Bobsled-Skeleton-Federation/Results/Combine-Test

Here are the results of the 2013 USA Bobsled Combine:
https://www.teamusa.org/~/media/USA_Bobsled_Skeleton/Documents/Results/Combine%20Test/2013_COMBINE.pdf

The fastest man there is Chris Fogt, who was a former sprinter. Many sprinters do become bobsledders, like Lolo Jones, Craig Pickering, and Chris Fogt.

Here's a cool vid showing other training they do:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBYPhjhy6a4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBYPhjhy6a4</a>

So let's say Maurice Greene's 60m WR of 6.39sec is 6.28sec when you subtract reaction time. This year in the Calgary combine (which I'm guessing was the highest level of competition) some guy from a standing start runs a 6.26?? I find it hard to believe this isn't more well-known.

http://www.teamusa.org/~/media/USA_Bobsled_Skeleton/Documents/Results/Combine%20Test/2013_COMBINE.pdf

okay, but the first sentence of your post is "bobsledders are the fastest athletes in the world." just saying.

@acole14: Time your 30m or 60m dash with:
a) a three point stance with your foot behind the line, but your finger and arms in front of the line
b) bobsled start - with your heel on the line, standing like a wide receiver, and use some extra momentum as the guy in the video demonstrates.

Your times wil be different by at least 0.3s in the 30m, and up to 0.6s in the 60. my 40yd dash times are different by 0.5s with a one step hopping start

So it's very believable.

Take Fogt's 6.26 and do the following:
a) add RT - 0.15s - 6.41s
b) add difference between standing and a block start - 0.3s at least.
You're looking at a 6.7s 60 there.

So what you're saying is that they're NOT the fastest athletes in the world and are just cheating at the start to get faster 60m times? 

Some more data to make this more interesting.

NFL 2012 draft, best 100 40m times:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft/combine/_/year/2012

Times go from 4:33 ( ) to 4:63 but it doesn't include reaction time so it would be ~4:50 to ~4:80 if we add an 'average' 0:15 reaction time.


The world record 100m split times:
http://speedendurance.com/2013/04/09/fastest-10-meter-splits/


Carl Lewis 1988 9:92 splits : 40m = 4:78 , 60m =  6:47
Usain Bolt 2009 9:58 splits : 40m = 4:64 , 60m = 6:29


In the bobsled combine, average 45m time is above 5 seconds ( best is 4:85 ) while 60m average is above 6:50 seconds ( best is 6:26 as noted alteady ) and they are with no reaction time AND a hop-start, which combined would add about 0:50 seconds as analyzed by Avishek above.

EDIT :
Duh, i was concluding that NFL are damn fast and easy faster than the bosled but it is 40 YARDS for the NFL so only ~36,5 meters.
So the average 45m for bobsled with reaction time and all is in the 5:50 area while the average 35m average for NFL is in the 4:75 area. The 100m guys do the 30-40 splits in something around 0:9 seconds so what do we have ? A FUCKING TIE!!!

I'm outta here... 

Both me and Nightfly trained with bobsledders and I remember they were doing some 20 rep sets.

this is the dumbest argument on the forum in months.

They are definitely not amongst the most powerful athletes, they don't come close to oly lifters.

Nek minnit:

4. Bobsleigh athletes are also among the most powerful athletes in the world based on their performances in the broad jump and power clean.

This could have just been a nice little thread showing how bobsledders run really fast and jump really high, but as usual Avishek has to be the biggest know-it-all and it turns into the stupidest thread since the golden era of Harvey M and hyperdunk.