Archie Hahn

Archie Hahn
Archie Hahn
Full name	Charles Archibald Hahn
nation	United States
birthday	September 14, 1880
place of birth	Dodgeville , United States
size	167 cm
Weight	64 kg
date of death	January 21, 1955
Place of death	Charlottesville , United States
Career
discipline	sprint
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 0 × 0 × Olympus. Interludes 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold St. Louis 1904 60 m gold St. Louis 1904 100 m gold St. Louis 1904 200 m  Olympic Intermediate Games gold Athens 1906 100 m

Charles Archibald "Archie" Hahn , called the Meteor of Milwaukee (born September 14, 1880 in Dodgeville , Wisconsin , † January 21, 1955 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) was an American athlete .

Career

Hahn won three gold medals at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , in the 60 , 100 and 200-meter races . He achieved a triple , which is no longer possible these days, because the 60-meter run is no longer held at the Olympic Games. In the 200-meter run, he ran a world record and an Olympic record with 21.6 s . The world record lasted until 1914, the Olympic record until the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . He was able to achieve the fast time because the 200 meters were run on a consistently straight route.

At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 he won the sprint over 100 meters. He was denied further medals because the 60- and 200-meter races in Athens were not part of the program.

Hahn was multiple American national champion on various sprint courses. After his playing career, he became a coach and wrote a book, How to sprint . In 1983 he was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the US Athletics ( National Track & Field Hall of Fame ) and in 1991 into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame .

Publications

• How to sprint , textbook of sprint training.

Web links

• Archie Hahn in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )