How to determine if a person is a sprinter or distance runner by just looking in their running form?

Please state the running form of a sprinter in both upper and lower body, same with the distance runners please, greatly thanks!|||Running form varies with every person. If they are running fast and their arms aren't flying everywhere than they are a sprinter...if the person is running at a good moderate pace and their arms aren't flying everywhere they are distance...|||Form is more important when it comes to sprinting as every little millisecond counts. However people definitely over-stress form. If you want to know what someone is better at... throw them in a range of events and see what they do best in. Then start training for that and eventually the form will start to improve itself to be the most efficient the body can be while doing that activity repeatedly. Then you can consider specialized training and coaching for them...





I could be the best form 100m runner in the world but it wouldn't do me any good if I run it in 15 seconds... At the same time, I could be super efficient while running a marathon but if I run 4 hours, who cares right?|||well in a race, a sprinter has their arms pumping really hard while a distance runner is more relaxed during the pumping of the arms. also a sprinter lifts their knee high and stays on their toes and looks like they are kicking when they run. i hope it helps|||sprinter have high knees when running they are more on there balls of there feet, there arms pump forward and back usually from like pocket to eye. (hard to explain on here)





Distance runners have little knee lift and there arms don't pump as much as what a sprinters would.





watch youtube videos and that will show you the difference|||You can not tell how fast someone might run by looking at their form.


Some sprinters look slow and have bad form and some distance runners look good and can't run fast.


The only way to know is to run time trials at different distances.|||I agree with lestermo.