Allan Wells, MBE
(b.1952)
Athletics
Inducted in 2002
Wells won the gold medal for the 100m at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. He was the first Briton to do so since 1924. He also won a silver medal for the 200m. Wells started his career in athletics as a triple jumper. He changed to the long jump and then to sprinting when he was 24. Wells, a winner of four Commonwealth Games gold medals, won the Golden Sprint title in 1981. The Golden Sprint was measured by an aggregate of 100m and 200m race times, and proved, beyond doubt, that Wells was the fastest runner in the world.
- Commonwealth gold medal, 4 x 100m relay, 1978
- Olympic gold medal, 100m, 1980
- Olympic silver medal, 200m, 1980
- Commonwealth gold medal, 100m, 1982
- Commonwealth gold medals, 200m, 1978, 1982
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