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The gregarious, dogmatic, hyperactive running coach Arthur Leslie Lydiard is one of the few New Zealand sportsmen to have influenced millions of people around.

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Arthur Lydiard

Lauded as one of the top 20 New Zealanders of the last century by the New Zealand Herald and the Greatest Coach of the 20th Century by Runner’s World – no individual in the history of New Zealand athletics boasts quite the same far-reaching legacy as Arthur Leslie Lydiard.

A coaching revolutionary who transformed the training template of distance running success, he guided Sir Murray Halberg and Sir Peter Snell to a total of four Olympic gold medals during a glittering era of success for New Zealand before his principles acted as the guiding light for New Zealand’s next wave of Olympic medallists in the 1970s.

Yet Lydiard’s methodology was far wider in scope than the coaching of elite athletes, and even today millions of recreational runners from all corners of the planet adopt his training principles in pursuit of their own individual goals.

Born in Auckland in 1917, Arthur was educated at Mt Albert Grammar School and later trained as a shoemaker. A keen schoolboy rugby player and boxer he had dabbled in athletics at school. However, after a friend, Jack

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Arthur Lydiard

Born on 6 July 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, Arthur spent his entire life in pursuit of athletic excellence and helped countless runners around the world achieve their goals.

Arthur’s love for running began when he was just a schoolboy, competing in cross country races, but it wasn’t until he was 29 years old that he began to take the sport seriously. Within a year, he had won his first national title in the one-mile race. He went on to win national titles in the two-mile, three-mile and six-mile events.

In 1950, aged 33, Arthur won the New Zealand national championship in the marathon, finishing the race in a time of 2 hours 54 minutes and 37 seconds. He placed 13th in the marathon at the 1950 Auckland Empire Games, having not slept properly for months due to a sick child. He won the national marathon title again in 1953 and 1955 before retiring. This would mark the beginning of his transition from a competitive runner to a coach. He managed Zenith Footwear in Penrose, where he began producing Arthur Lydiard running shoes. His brother Wally later managed the co

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Arthur Lydiard

New Zealand runner and athletics coach

Arthur Leslie LydiardONZ OBE (6 July 1917 – 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularising the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world. His training methods are based on a strong endurance base and periodisation.

Biography

Lydiard was born in Auckland, growing up in Sandringham. He attended Edendale School and Mount Albert Grammar School.^[1] He spent much of his early life training to become a shoemaker. After noticing that his physical fitness was waning in his 20s, Lydiard set up the Owairaka Harriers, becoming the coach of the Owairaka Athletic Club.^[2]

Lydiard competed in the Men's Marathon at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, coming twelfth with a time of 2:54:51.^[3]

Lydiard presided over New Zealand's golden era in world track and field during the 1960s sending Murray Halberg, Peter Snell and Barry Magee to t