2018 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile: non-invasive gait analysis

The 2018 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile race was a mile-long race held in New York City. New Balance Athletics Inc. (NBA) is a global sports shoe and apparel manufacturer and is sponsor to some of the participating athletes. NBA wish to better understand how their shoes and sponsored athletes perform during competition and training, to help characterise running performance and fatigue during the entire race.
Non-invasive analysis methods, suitable for use in competition, have been developed by the Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CSER) to automatically analyse gait parameters such as step frequency using broadcast television footage.