Jim Hines, the first athlete to break 10 seconds in the 100m, died

The American Jim Hines, the first athlete in history to break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash, died Saturday at age 76.as announced this Sunday by the publication Athletics Weekly.

Hines, winner of two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico, He earned a place in history after becoming the first man to go under ten seconds in the hectometer test on October 14, 1968by winning the Olympic final with a time of 9.95 seconds.

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A world record that stood for almost fifteen yearsuntil the also American Calvin Smith established a new universal record on July 3, 1983 with a time of 9.93 seconds.

Jim Hines, who also won the Mexico Games in the 4×100 test, ended his athletic career just a few weeks after the end of the Olympic event to jump into American football, after being signed by the Miami Dolphins, an NFL team.