Jim Hines ( born James Ray Hines ; born September 10, 1946 , Dumas , Arkansas , USA ) is an American athlete , a two-time champion of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . The first person to run a hundred meters faster than 10 seconds [2] .
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| Full name | James ray hines | ||||||||||
| Date and place of birth | September 10, 1946 (72 years old) Dumas , Arkansas , USA | ||||||||||
| Citizenship |  USA | ||||||||||
| Growth | 183 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg | ||||||||||
| Club | and | ||||||||||
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| 100 m | 9.95 [1] (1968)Wr | ||||||||||
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Athletic career
Jim Hines was born in Dumas ( Arkansas ), grew up in Auckland ( California ), in 1964 he graduated from High School. In his youth, he played baseball , then was noted by coaches as a talented sprinter. In 1968, at the U.S. Championship in Sacramento Hines, he ran the hundredth time for the first time in the world faster than 10 seconds, showing a result of 9.9 seconds. by a manual stopwatch (the time measured by an automatic stopwatch was 10.03 s.). On the same day, the result is 9.9 s. showed two more athletes - runner-up Ronnie Ray Smith (electronic time 10.13 sec.) and Charles Green , who won the other semifinal (electronic time 10.09 sec.). In the same year, Hines entered the and became a member of the athletics team.
The issue of Hines’s participation in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City until recently remained open to question, as black American athletes intended to boycott the Olympics in protest of racial discrimination in the United States, the participation in the Olympics of athletes of the racist regime of South Africa and the open connections of IOC Chairman Avery Brandedge with various racist and anti-Semitic organizations. Nevertheless, Hines took part in the Olympics and reached the finals in the 100 meters , where he won with a new world record in electronic stopwatch - 9.95 seconds. Since the official registration of world records in the electronic stopwatch began only in 1975 , this result was rounded to 9.9 s. and declared a repetition of a world record. The 100 meter finals in Mexico City became also known as the first Olympic final in history, in which only black athletes participated. A few days later, Hines co-authored another world record set by the US team in the 4 × 100 meter relay race , and won the second gold of the Olympics.
After Olympic success, Hines was invited to join the National Football League in the Miami Dolphins club that same year.
Further fate
For many years, Hines has worked with teens of the Negro ghetto and Houston oil terminal.
In 1979, he was [1] .
Hines' world record (9.95 s.) Lasted 15 years and was surpassed by Calvin Smith , who in 1983 ran a hundred-meter race for 9.93 s.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 > Jim Hines . usatf.org . USA Track & Field, Inc .. Released November 30, 2014.
- ↑ Olympics at Sports-Reference.com> Olympics Statistics and History.