Allan Wells
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| Born | 3 May 1952 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event(s) | 100 metres 200 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Allan Wipper Wells (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion for Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1981, he was both the IAAF Golden Sprints and IAAF World Cup gold medallist. He is also a three-time European Cup gold medallist.
Wells was a multiple medallist for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, winning two golds at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and completing a 100 metres/200 metres sprint double at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. He also recorded the fastest British 100/200 times from 1978–1983 and the fastest 100 m in 1984.