The WBGT-Index – a heat index, used in international sporting events

摘要

Heat stress affects all people. Particularly affected in their well-being are the elderly and sick. A limitation of their performance notice especially athletes, which do not reach under extreme physical strain on one hand their objective during an athletic contest, on the other hand, however, they could take physical damage, mainly due to miscalculations by excessive heat stress. In order to put the athletes a decision criterion in their hand, is increasingly at international sporting events the WBGT index used as a measure to prevail the heat stress. In Berlin, every year since 2007, meteorological measurements accompany the real,-BERLIN MARATHON, in 2009, there were direct measurements performed in sports complexes during the 12" IAAF World Championships in athletics.