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Allan Wells

In 1980 at the Moscow Olympic Games, his time was 10.25 beating Cuban Silvio Leonard by the thickness of his vest. Leonard was the 2nd man in history to go under 10 seconds, 9.98, so a magnificent acheivement for Allan Wells.

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Alan Wells of Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow.

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