Editing Allan Wells (section)

===After competitive retirement===
Since 1982 Wells has lived in Surrey, with his wife [[Margot Wells|Margot]].<ref name="golden oldie"/> After retirement, he was a coach for the British [[bobsleigh]] team. Margot was also a Scottish 100/100 hurdles champion. They are now based in [[Guildford]], Surrey where she is a fitness consultant, and Allan is a retired systems engineer. Allan coached the [[Bank of Scotland]] specialist sprint squad alongside another former Scottish sprinter, [[Ian Mackie]].

Wells's personal best for the 100 metres is 10.11, and for the 200 metres is 20.21, run at the [[Moscow 1980]] games, and both are still Scottish records.

He also ran a wind-assisted (+5.9&nbsp;m/s) 10.02 in Brisbane, 1982 (still the track record as of August&nbsp;2024 which he shares with Rohan Browning of Sydney, Australia from April&nbsp;2023), and (+3.7&nbsp;m/s) 20.11 in Edinburgh, 1980.

In June 2015, a BBC documentary ([[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]: ''Catch Me If You Can'') uncovered allegations by Wells' former teammate of historical doping by the 1980 Olympic 100 m champion, beginning in 1977. Wells denied the allegations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-32883944|title=Allan Wells 'took drugs ahead of gold medal win'|date=5 June 2015|publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

As of August 2024, Wells holds two track records for 200&nbsp;metres, both of which had wind-assistance. They are [[Turin]] (20.29, 1979, +2.2&nbsp;m/s) and [[Venice]] (20.26, 1981, +8.5&nbsp;m/s).