US sprinter Jim Hines, the first man to run 100m in under 10 seconds, dies at 76

Jim Hines was a baseballer in his teenage years before making the US Olympic team for the 100m and 4x100m relay in 1968. (Getty Images: Oakland Tribune/Howard Erker)

American double Olympic champion Jim Hines, who became the first man to run the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds in 1968, has died at the age of 76.

Hines was born in Dumas, Arkansas, in September 1946, but was raised in California.