SHORT, SNAPPY STRIDE WAS SECRET OF LLOYD HAHN’S SUCCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 12

SHORT, SNAPPY STRIDE WAS SECRET OF LLOYD HAHN’S SUCCESS

It has been stated elsewhere that C. INI. Olsen, who clinched the halfmile title at the Auckland provincial athletic championships last Saturday is favoured with a style resembling that of the crack American athlete, Lloyd Hahn. But, however, Olsen’s stride is no more like Hahn’s than a Kangaroo s is like that of an ostrich. Olsen styles a long, springy stride, while that of the American is short and snappy. Evidence of this, apart from the fact that the writer saw Hahn in action during his tour of New Zealand, is in the

Tact that in the early days of his athletic career it w a s anticipated that he would make a sprinter owing to his particular action. Later, however, when he became a distance runner, his short stride proved the key to his success, for such a style was well suited to the furlong laps, so many of which a.i c otreu in me States. American sports writers have explained that the reason why Hahn defeated Dr. Peltzer, the crack German half-miler, was because the short and snappv stride was much better for the short-lap tracks than the long stride as featured by the German.