Video of Charles Allie pushing Bill Collins to M65 world record 100

Thanks to a raw file uploaded to usatfmasters.org, we have a clip from Saturday’s Penn Relays NBC coverage looking back at Friday’s M65 WR by Hall of Famer Bill Collins, a 12.33 with a recorded 0.0 mps wind. The announcer erringly says Bill attended “Houston,” when in fact he’s a proud Horned Frog of Texas Christian University. But he did indeed help set an IAAF world record in the 4×100 (38.03) at the 1977 IAAF World Cup in Germany. So 40 years later, he’s still booking it. If he was a 10-flat runner in his heyday, he’s lost 2.33 seconds over four decades. Or only a half-second every 10 years. He took 51 or 52 steps, compared with Usain Bolt’s 41. Age-graded, his 12.33 is worth an open time of 9.95. (Methinks it should be 9.55.) And Houston Elite teammate Charles Allie’s runner-up 12.73 is stunning as well. Hall of Famer Charles is 69, and the listed M70 WR is Bobby Whilden’s 12.77. Watch out for Charlie in 2018!

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May 2, 2017

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  1. Mary Harada - May 2, 2017

    wow – just keeps getting better with age! Bill never ceases to amaze.

  2. ventsi - May 3, 2017

    Congratulations! Fantastic time for M65.
    The record in 200m – 24.65 sec (of Charles Allie) – is tougher. But nothing is impossible for Bill Collins.

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