Jim Hines, who has died aged 76, was the first man to run 100 metres in less than 10 seconds, but he had to do it twice to claim his world record that stood for nearly 15 years.
Hines cracked the 10-second mark for the first time at the US outdoor championships in Sacramento, in June 1968, in a race dubbed “The Night of Speed”. His hand-timed 9.9 seconds was equalled by the second- and third-place finishers, Charles Greene and Ronnie Ray Smith, who became joint record-breakers, although electronic timing had all three men clocked at just over 10 seconds.
