KIHU validated SPECTO Athletics® for Long Jump and Triple Jump

The Finnish Research Institute for Olympic Sports, KIHU has validated and accepted Angular Velocity’s measurements in Long Jump and Triple Jump. This means that Long Jump and Triple Jump are the first SPECTO Athletics® disciplines to get the validation from KIHU.

“This is important step to the credibility of our company and our products. As a young company we must prove more why our product is better and more trustworthy than earlier applications. That is why we use third party to verify the accuracy of our measurements and the input of our developers to create the best sports tracking system”, says Kristian Törnqvist, director of R&D of Angular Velocity.

KIHU was validating the measurements of speeds and distances in Long Jump and Triple Jump: for example, the accuracy of distance to board and speed was high. The total distance measured with fast LIDAR-based SPECTO Sports® technology was verified with high accuracy.

“After World Athletics has certified the measuring the total distance, it will be revolutionary: TV-producers get the result quickly and there is more time to analyse and compare the performance which makes it more interesting to the spectators”, Kristian Törnqvist says.

He also emphasizes that validation of measurements gives SPECTO Athletics® more respect among event organizers and athletes. That facilitates developing the new disciplines to the SPECTO Sports® product family.

SPECTO Athletics® will be on site at several competitions from August onwards gathering data and testing the system. From Motonet GP in Kuortane SPECTO Athletics® data from Long Jump will be presented also via Yle’s broadcasting to television spectators. SPECTO Athletics® will be in the field also in Motonet GP in Espoo and in Kalevan kisat in Turku.