Arthur Lydiard

Staked his claim as boxing’s top heavyweight with an eight-round demolition of Danny Williams last Saturday, Vitali Klitschko, one of the division’s three world champs. The 6'7", 250pound Ukrainian, who won the WBC...

On the afternoon of September 5, Peter Snell, the world record holder for the mile, half mile and 800 meters, as well as the half mile and 1,000 yards indoors, got out of his Austin station wagon in a bleak suburb of...

To beat Peter Snell, Coach Mihaly Igloi devised a four-man racing machine. But he was up against a miler who liked to race men—not stopwatches

Within the last two years runners from sparsely populated New Zealand have broken no less than eight world records. Behind this astonishing success is the teaching of an athletic iconoclast, Arthur Lydiard, who sets...

Arthur Lydiard, coach of record makers Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, describes the rigorous and controversial training methods that are the talk of the track world.