Harry Jerome\u0027s ex\u002Dwife Wendy disputes records kept by world and Canadian track organizations
“In Saskatchewan, the three timers timing him had him at 9.9, all three of them, and they didn’t think people would believe it if they said Harry had run 9.9, so they agreed on 10 seconds. I mean, give me a break,” she said. “They wouldn’t give him the 9.9 but they did give him the 10.”
Cameron also noted that the standard conversion from hand-timed to fully automatic timing is to add .24 seconds, which would turn Jerome’s 1960 result into 10.24 FAT. And indeed, World Athletics’ rankings of results from all timing methods include Jerome’s mark, converted to 10.24. She said the disrespect from media reached a fever pitch after Jerome pulled up lame in the 100-yard final at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. He won all three of his preliminary round heats in 9.4, 9.6 and 9.5 seconds, but finished the final sixth and dead last in 10-flat, after tearing a quadriceps muscle.
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