Editing Jim Hines

{{short description|American athletics sprinter (1946–2023)}}
{{other people|Jim Hines}}
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| image = Jim Hines 1968.jpg
| caption = Hines in 1968
| full_name = James Ray Hines
| birth_date = {{birth date|1946|09|10}}
| birth_place = [[Dumas, Arkansas]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|06|03|1946|09|10}}
| death_place = [[Hayward, California]], U.S.
| height = 1.83 m
| weight = 81 kg
| country = {{USA}}
| sport = [[Track and field]]
| event = [[Sprint (running)|Sprints]]
| pb = {{Unbulleted list
|'''100 m''': 9.95 {{AthAbbr|A}} ([[Estadio Olímpico Universitario|Mexico City]], 1968)<ref name="IAAF Profile">{{cite web |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/united-states/jim-hines-7524 |title=Jim HINES {{!}} Profile |website=iaaf.org |publisher=[[IAAF]] |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref>
|'''200 m''': 20.59 ([[Memorial Stadium (Bakersfield)|Bakersfield]], 1967)<ref name="IAAF Profile"/>}}
| collegeteam = [[Texas Southern Tigers]]
| medaltemplates =
{{Medal|Sport|Men's [[Sport of athletics|athletics]]}}
{{Medal|Country|the {{USA}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics|1968 Mexico City]]|[[Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|1968 Mexico City | [[Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}}
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| draftyear   = 1968
| draftround  = 6
| draftpick   = 146
| high_school = [[McClymonds High School|Oakland (CA) McClymonds]]
| college     = [[Texas Southern Tigers football|Texas Southern]]
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'''James Ray Hines''' (September 10, 1946 – June 3, 2023) was an American [[track and field]] athlete and [[National Football League]] (NFL) player, who held the [[Men's 100 metres world record progression|100-meter world record]] for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the [[10-second barrier]] in the [[100 metres|100 meters]], and won individual and relay gold at the [[Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics|Mexico City Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/jim-hines-1.html |title=Jim Hines Bio, Stats, and Results |website=sports-reference.com |publisher=[[Sports Reference]] |access-date=January 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804123749/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/jim-hines-1.html |archive-date=August 4, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Track career==
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Born in [[Dumas, Arkansas]], Hines was raised in [[Oakland, California]], and graduated from [[McClymonds High School]] in 1964. He was a [[baseball]] player in his younger years<ref name="BBC"/> until he was spotted by track coach Jim Coleman as a running talent, and Hines became a sprinter. At the 1968 U.S. national championships in [[Sacramento, California]], Hines became the first man to break the ten second barrier in the 100-metre race, setting 9.9 (manual timing), with an electronic time of 10.03 – two other athletes, [[Ronnie Ray Smith]] behind him (electronic time 10.13) and [[Charles Greene (athlete)|Charles Greene]] on the other semi-final (electronic time 10.09) having the same official clocking. That evening of June 20, 1968, at [[Charles C. Hughes Stadium|Hughes Stadium]] has been dubbed by track and field historians as the "[[Night of Speed]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/celebrating-the-night-of-speed |title=Celebrating the Night of Speed |website=iaaf.org |publisher=[[IAAF]] |date=August 23, 2003 |access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> Hines attended [[Texas Southern University]] in [[Houston, Texas]]. He was a member of the Texas Southern University Tigers track team.

A few months later, at the [[1968 Summer Olympics]], Hines – a [[Black people|black]] athlete – found himself in a tense situation, with [[Race riot|racial riots]] going on in his home country and a threat of a boycott by the black athletes of the U.S. team, who were disturbed by the controversial idea of admitting [[apartheid]] [[South Africa at the Olympics|South Africa]] to the Games and revelations linking the head of the [[International Olympic Committee]], [[Avery Brundage]], to a racist and [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] country club. Hines reached the 100 m final, and won it with the time 9.89 appearing on the screen, later corrected to 9.95. The 9.89 was taken from a light beam across the finish line, while the official photographic process used [[Polaroid film]] and took a couple of minutes to process and read. There was some controversy over how his (slower appearing) automatic time of 9.95 should compare to the hand timed 9.9 world record (Hines was again recorded at 9.9 in his 9.95 race). Automatic times start instantly with the sound of the gun, while hand times include human reaction time to start the watch. It took until 1977 before [[fully automatic timing]] was required of world records. As the fastest electronic time to that point, Hines' mark was recognized exclusively as a new world record.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf |title=Berlin 2009 Past Results |pages=546–547 |website=iaaf.org |publisher=[[IAAF]] |access-date=June 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022172624/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf |archive-date=October 22, 2012 }}</ref> The race was also significant for being the third all-black podium in Olympic history. Hines helped break another world record, when he and his teammates sprinted to the [[4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]] [[Gold medal|gold]] at the same Games.

==Professional football career==
Hines was drafted by the [[Miami Dolphins]] of the NFL in the sixth round of the [[1968 NFL/AFL draft]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1968 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1968/draft.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=5 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Hines spent the [[1968 NFL season|1968 season]] on the Dolphins' [[practice squad]]. He was given the nickname "Oops". He appeared in ten games with Miami in 1969, accumulating a total of 52 all-purpose yards.<ref name="HinesPFR">{{cite web |title=Jimmy Hines Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HineJi00.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=5 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Hines' final professional game was his first and only game with the [[Kansas City Chiefs]] in 1970.<ref name="HinesPFR" /> Hines was ranked as the 10th-worst NFL player of all time by [[Deadspin]] writer Jeff Pearlman.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://deadspin.com/5690560/the-bottom-100-the-worst-players-in-nfl-history-part-2 |title=The Bottom 100: The Worst Players in NFL History (Part 2) |last=Pearlman |first=Jeff |website=deadspin.com |publisher=[[Deadspin]] |date=November 16, 2010 |access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref>

==Later years==
For years Hines worked with inner-city youth in [[Houston]], as well as on oil rigs outside the city.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carlson |first=Michael |date=2023-06-13 |title=Jim Hines obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jun/13/jim-hines-obituary |access-date=2024-08-16 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Hines's world record remained unsurpassed until [[Calvin Smith]] ran a time of 9.93 in 1983.<ref name="BBC">[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65692022 Jim Hines: First sprinter to run 100m in under 10 seconds dies]</ref>

Hines competed in the 100 at a 1984 Masters Track and Field Competition at UCLA.<ref>National Masters News, Jun 1984, pages 11 and 40 of 44.[https://www.mastershistory.org/NMN/NMN-June-1984s.pdf] Retrieved Jun 5, 2023</ref>

Hines was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, class of 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Texas Sports Hall of Fame {{!}} TX Almanac |url=https://www.texasalmanac.com/articles/texas-sports-hall-of-fame |website=www.texasalmanac.com |access-date=5 June 2023}}</ref> Hines was also inducted into the Texas Track and Field coaches Hall of Fame, class of 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Hines (1986) - Texas Southern Hall of Fame |url=https://tsusports.com/honors/texas-southern-hall-of-fame/jim-hines/25 |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=Texas Southern University Athletics |language=en}}</ref>

Hines died in [[Hayward, California]], on June 3, 2023, at the age of 76.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2023/06/05/jim-hines-first-man-to-break-10-second-barrier-in-100-meter-dash-dies/70288309007/|title = Jim Hines, first man to break 10-second barrier in 100-meter dash, dies at 76|last = Schad|first = Tom|date= June 5, 2023|accessdate = June 5, 2023|newspaper = [[USA Today]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |date=2023-06-05 |title=Jim Hines, First to Sprint 100 Meters in Under 10 Seconds, Dies at 76 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/sports/olympics/jim-hines-dead.html |access-date=2023-06-06 |issn=0362-4331|url-access = limited}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110609195031/http://www.cmgww.com/sports/hines/ Official Website]
*{{World Athletics}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgYxUDk1SU Jim Hines wins the 1968 Olympics men's 100 meters final in 9.95 seconds] via the [[Olympic Channel]] on [[YouTube]]

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