Silvio Leonard
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Athletics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | Moscow 1980 | 100 metres | |
Silvio Leonard (born September 20, 1955) is a former sprinter from Cuba. He was the second athlete to run the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds with electronic timing, running in 9.98 seconds on August 11, 1977 in Guadalajara. The first was 1968 Olympic champion Jim Hines.
At the 1980 Summer Olympics Leonard won a silver medal in 100 metres, finishing behind Allan Wells of Great Britain.
Here is the video of the 1980 race in which he got a silver medal, despite being expected to win gold. This may have been due to an injury he received 3 years earlier in Mexico, when he ran the 9.98 time stated above. On the video he appears running in line 1. Allan Wells, who won gold, wasn't even ranked, but won with a time of 10.25. There were at the time at least three men who had run under 10 seconds and the world record stood at 9.95.
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