Melvin Lattany is an American former track athlete. He was one of the world's dominating sprinters in the early 1980s. Mel Lattany (United States) set the men's 100 m world record of 9.96 in Athens, USA on May 5, 1984. It stood 3.3 years, until Carl Lewis's 9.93 on August 30, 1987. Wiki link