Arthur Lydiard

Athletics, New Zealand. Lydiard built his method on a long aerobic base of around 100 miles a week, followed by hill work, speed sessions and a taper, a sequence now standard in distance running and set out in his book Run to the Top (1962). Peter Snell, Murray Halberg and Barry Magee all won Olympic medals in Rome in 1960 under his coaching, and he helped start the jogging boom.