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Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1981, he was both the IAAF Golden Sprints and IAAF World Cup gold medallist.
He remains the last white athlete to win the men's 100m at the Olympic Games, and was the first Briton to win gold since Harold Abrahams back at the 1924 Games in Paris. Wells missed out by a ...
The wife of the former Sussex and England cricketer Alan Wells is believed to have committed suicide, after her body was found at the foot of the South Coast landmark, Beachy Head, on Saturday...
Jul 23, 2020 · In 1980 the fastest man in the world was a Scot, Allan Wells sprinting to 100m gold at the Moscow Olympics.
Nov 5, 2011 · The Edinburgh Express winning the Golden Sprints title over 100m and 200m in Berlin in 1981, beating the World's top sprinters at that time.
Profile. Much like his brother Colin Wells, Alan Wells failed to crack international cricket. He won a Test cap and an ODI cap but never really commanded a permanent spot in the XI. He was more...
With U.S. athletes absent because of an official boycott, Great Britain’s rookie sprinter Alan Wells took advantage to strike the gold.
Allan Wells began his athletic career by winning the 1970 Scottish Junior triple jump title and in 1972 he cleared a respectable 7.32 (24-0¼) in the long jump.
Alan Wells's recent matches played across all cricket formats including Tests, ODIs, T20Is and other formats.
Oct 27, 2005 · The second, more powerful memory is Allan Wells becoming Olympic 100m champion. On 19 July 1980 the world watched as Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev opened the XXII Olympiad.
