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Archie Hahn

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Also known as Charles Archibald Hahn

German-American athlete

Key facts

1904
Ironwood HS (MI)
1910
Monmouth (IL)
1911
Whitman
1928
Princeton
Born
( 1880-09-14 ) September 14, 1880, Dodgeville, Wisconsin , U.S.
Died
January 21, 1955 (1955-01-21) (aged 74), Charlottesville, Virginia , U.S.
1901 1904
Michigan
1907 1908
Pacific (OR)
1911 1914
Whitman
1915 1919
Brown (backfield)
1920 1922
Michigan (trainer)
1910 1911
Monmouth (IL)
1904 1905
Ironwood HS (MI)
1911 1915
Whitman
1915 1920
Brown
1920 1923
Michigan (assistant)
1929 1950
Virginia
1907 1909
Pacific (OR)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Hahn
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Dodgeville
Place of death
Charlottesville
Participant in
1904 Summer Olympics
Country for sport
United States
Mass
64
Image
1904 Olympic sprint.jpg
Height
167
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date of birth
1880-09-14
date of death
1955-01-21
Commons category
Archie Hahn
sports discipline competed in
sprinting
nickname
The Milwaukee Meteor
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Encyclopedic overview

Charles Archibald Hahn (September 14, 1880 – January 21, 1955) was an American track athlete and is widely regarded as one of the best sprinters of the early 20th century. He is the first athlete to win both the 100 m and 200 m race at the same Olympic Games.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Archie Hahn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.