Archie Hahn

Charles Archibald Hahn, born on 14 September 1880 in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, was an American track athlete who is widely regarded as one of the best sprinters of the early twentieth century and the first athlete to win both the 100 metres and the 200 metres at the same Olympic Games. Running for the University of Michigan, he won sprint events at the 1903 American and Canadian championships and was among the favourites at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, where he won the 60 metres, the 100 metres and the 200 metres. In 1906 the Milwaukee Meteor repeated his 100 metre victory in Athens, a feat not equalled until Carl Lewis in 1988. In 1910 he outran a racehorse in a 50 yard dash at the Wisconsin State Fair. He later became a coach and wrote the book How to Sprint, issued by the Spalding Athletic Library in 1929. He died on 21 January 1955.