Which faster a horse or usain bolt? 10 points!?

Question

Which faster a horse or usain bolt? 10 points!?

Answer 1

depends on whos darker, JK. I'd go with Usain bolt

Answer 2

Usain Bolt.

Answer 3

wonderful question

usain is blazin fast

Answer 4

will the horse be wearing running shoes too?

Answer 5

It depends on the horse, but barring horses that are either extremely old, sick, or injured, your average horse is going to be faster.

As fast as Usain Bolt is, he has neither the speed nor stamina of a horse.

The top speed ever recorded for a human is just over twenty-five miles per hour, and Usain Bolt (believe it or not) hasn't reached that speed yet.

Take his record breaking 200 meter run.  He did that in 19.3 seconds (9.65 seconds per 100, as opposed to his 9.69 second run in the 100, so his 200 was faster).  That averages out to about 10.36 meters per second.

Cutting through the boring math, his speed ends up being 23.18 miles per hour in that race, which both pushes and confirms the red-line of what humans are capable of running, and he wouldn't be able to keep that speed up for much longer than he did.

The record for the 800 meter (set by Wilson Kipketer in 1997) is 1:41.11.  Divide it out, and that's about 12.64 seconds per 100 meters, or nearly 25% slower per 100 meters than Usain Bolt's time in the 200.

Since we're talking fastest times ever recorded for a human being for those two distances, you can reasonably assume even for the fastest and most athletic humans, stamina for running at speed drops off quickly after the first couple hundred meters or so.

Horses can sustain a gallop speed of 25 mph for miles, and can sprint nearly double that speed for short distances if they need to.  The American Quarter-horse can achieve speeds of up to 55 miles per hour for "short" distances of a quarter-mile (about 400 meters).

So as fast as Usain Bolt is for a human, a good racehorse would leave him in the dust.

Answer 6

A Horse.

Even a Elephant runs the same amount of speed he runs  

Answer 7

In a quick sprint, i really think Usain Bolt or any olympic sprinter in fact has a chance.  

Horses run about 40 mph, which is about double what the olympic runners run, but they take a few seconds to reach that speed.  So in a 20-30m race they got a shot.