At the 1968 US Championships in Sacramento, Hines became the first man to officially go below 10 seconds for 100m, running a hand-timed 9.9sec.
Later that year, in winning the 1968 Olympic 100m gold medal at altitude in Mexico City, Hines lowered the world record to an electronic timing of 9.95sec.
Remarkably, that record stood for 15 years – the longest of any men’s 100m world record in the fully automatic era.Hines, the son of a construction worker, was born in Dumas, Arkansas, in September 1946, but was raised in Oakland, California. His early passion was for baseball but athletics coach Jim Coleman spotted his talent for sprinting and by the time Hines was 17, he already ranked among the top 20 in the world over 100 yards.
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