Lydiard (left) at the 1949 national marathon championships
Born
Arthur Leslie Lydiard
(1917-07-06)6 July 1917
Auckland, New Zealand
Died
11 December 2004(2004-12-11) (aged 87)
Texas
Occupation(s)
Track and field coach
Spouse(s)
Jean Doreen Young (1940), Eira Marita Lehtonen (1977), Joelyne Van der Togt (1997)
Awards
Order of New Zealand
Order of the British Empire
Order of the White Rose
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.
Arthur Leslie Lydiard ONZ OBE (6 July 1917 – 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding...
near the Borough of Swindon Lydiard Park, formerly in the parish, now in the Borough of Swindon Lydiard House ArthurLydiard (1917–2004), New Zealand runner...
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of Fame named in 2012. A protégé of the New Zealand athletics coach ArthurLydiard, Snell is known for the three Olympic and two Commonwealth Games gold...
runners to follow the "talk test", an idea that had originated from ArthurLydiard in which runners should be going slow enough to be able to hold a conversation...
"roadwork" was mostly supplanted by the word "jogging", promoted by coach ArthurLydiard, who is credited with popularizing jogging. The idea of jogging as an...
through a running club organized by his friend and coaching colleague ArthurLydiard. Bowerman brought this concept back to the United States, and began...
footballer and 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident. ArthurLydiard, 87, New Zealand marathon runner and athletics coach. Harry Roesli,...
innovative and highly regarded distance coaches such as New Zealander ArthurLydiard adapted Holmér's training approach, and like Cerutty, introduced fartlek-type...
Hayward Field in 1963 after a visit to New Zealand, inspired by coach ArthurLydiard. The Hayward Field Tower was inspired by the Olympic Torch. It has nine...
running and anaerobic elements of training which were later perfected by ArthurLydiard. From 1951 to 1954, Bannister trained at the track at Paddington Recreation...
activities. In New Zealand, ArthurLydiard presided over the country's golden era in world track and field during the 1960s. Lydiard published Run to the Top...
training was based on the principles propounded by the New Zealand coach ArthurLydiard, and involved a substantial amount of long-distance running. By contrast...
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that New Zealand coach ArthurLydiard used to revolutionise how the world trained for all sports. At the 1960 Olympic Games Lydiard's pupils and Magee's training...
only more motivated by his disability. In 1951, he met ArthurLydiard, who became his coach. Lydiard had been a famous long-distance runner, and had new...
double Olympic gold medalist. Ran the mile in 3:43.13 in Rome in 1999. ArthurLydiard (1917–2004), runner and coach. Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF since...
national rugby league team Steven Luatua – Former All Blacks player ArthurLydiard ONZ – world-renowned Athletics coach Steve Matai – rugby league player...
MEd, Joan Ullyot, MD and the late New Zealand Olympic track coach, ArthurLydiard. In addition to vacation fitness camps, Galloway Productions conducts...
includes information about Wetmore's training methods, based on those of ArthurLydiard. Since the 1998 season, the Buffaloes have won the men's NCAA Division...
Championships. Following the advice of the late New Zealand running coach ArthurLydiard, he said that focusing on distance work would improve his speed, rather...
Guy Powles Allen Curnow Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Janet Frame ArthurLydiard Ann Ballin Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon Hugh Kāwharu Paul Reeves...
of jogging in the U.S. by publishing Jogging in 1966, after meeting ArthurLydiard in New Zealand in 1962. In 1977 infrastructure and support was absent...
animator, cartoonist, illustrator, writer and inventor (d. 2006) 1917 – ArthurLydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (d. 2004) 1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian...
in 1712 for Henry St John. He was simultaneously made Baron St John, of Lydiard Tregoze in the County of Wilts. Since 1751, the titles are merged with...
Global Information
Order of New Zealand 
Order of the White Rose