Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill ran 6.70 seconds in the 60m in his first track race since 2014 at the USA Track and Field Masters Indoor Championships on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.
Time ranks Hill outside the top 200 men in the world this year.
He responded on Twitter.
Masters meetings do not typically include active athletes of Olympic level and are for athletes 25 years and older, separated by age group and including some who are over 100 years old.
Earlier this week, Hill shared a video on social media of him practicing a block start at a track that appears to be at the University of Miami.
“Felt good putting those spikes back on!!!” was the caption.
In January 2020, Hill said he was serious about qualifying for the US Olympic track and field team after playing in that year’s Super Bowl. Then the pandemic postponed the Tokyo Games by a year, and Hill never raced.
Hill was a world-class sprinter in high school. He ran the 200m in 20.14 seconds at the age of 18 and placed sixth in the US in 2012.
Hill easily qualified for the 2012 Olympic trials (the automatic qualifying time was 20.55), and 20.14 would have made the 2012 Olympic team. But Hill didn’t race. Instead, he managed the junior national teams and the junior world championships.
His personal best in the 100m was 10.19 seconds. He also ran 9.98, but it came with a tailwind of 5.0 meters/second, which is 2.5 times the maximum tailwind for record purposes.
In the non-Olympic indoor 60m, Hill’s personal best is 6.64 from 2014. The world’s fastest men run between 6.40 and 6.50 seconds.
Two years ago, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalfwho has competed with Hill for the title of NFL’s fastest man, ran the 100m in 10.37 seconds and finished last in a nine-man field of otherwise elite sprinters, but not at Olympic medal level.
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