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{{short description|American athlete}}
{{about|the athlete|the comedian and actor|Archie Hahn (actor)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Archie Hahn
| image = Archie Hahn.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Hahn in 1904
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|9|14}}
| birth_place = [[Dodgeville, Wisconsin]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|1|21|1880|9|14}}
| death_place = [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Track
| player_years2 = 1901–1904
| player_team2 = [[Michigan Wolverines men's track and field|Michigan]]
| player_positions = 
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1904
| coach_team2 = Ironwood HS (MI)
| coach_years3 = 1907–1908
| coach_team3 = [[Pacific Boxers football|Pacific (OR)]]
| coach_years4 = 1910
| coach_team4 = [[Monmouth Fighting Scots football|Monmouth (IL)]]
| coach_years5 = 1911–1914
| coach_team5 = [[Whitman Fighting Missionaries football|Whitman]]
| coach_years6 = 1915–1919
| coach_team6 = [[Brown Bears football|Brown]] (backfield)
| coach_years7 = 1920–1922
| coach_team7 = [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan]] (trainer)
| coach_sport8 = Basketball
| coach_years9 = 1910–1911
| coach_team9 = [[Monmouth Fighting Scots men's basketball|Monmouth (IL)]]
| coach_years10 = 1911–?
| coach_team10 = [[Whitman Blues men's basketball|Whitman]]
| coach_sport11 = Track
| coach_years12 = 1904–1905
| coach_team12 = Ironwood HS (MI)
| coach_years13 = 1911–1915
| coach_team13 = [[Whitman Blues|Whitman]]
| coach_years14 = 1915–1920
| coach_team14 = [[Brown Bears track and field|Brown]]
| coach_years15 = 1920–1923
| coach_team15 = [[Michigan Wolverines men's track and field|Michigan]] (assistant)
| coach_years16 = 1928
| coach_team16 = [[Princeton Tigers track and field|Princeton]]
| coach_years17 = 1929–1950
| coach_team17 = [[Virginia Cavaliers track and field|Virginia]]
| admin_years1 = 1907–1909
| admin_team1 = [[Pacific Boxers|Pacific (OR)]]
| admin_years2 = 1910–1911
| admin_team2 = [[Monmouth Fighting Scots|Monmouth (IL)]]
| admin_years3 = 1911–1915
| admin_team3 = [[Whitman Blues|Whitman]]
| overall_record = 10–26–1 (college football)
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|athletics]] }}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1904 Summer Olympics|1904 St. Louis]] | [[Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 metres|60 metres]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1904 Summer Olympics|1904 St. Louis]] | [[Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|100 metres]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1904 Summer Olympics|1904 St. Louis]] | [[Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres|200 metres]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Intercalated Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1906 Intercalated Games|1906 Athens]] | [[Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games|100 metres]] }}
}}

'''Charles Archibald Hahn''' (September 14, 1880 – January 21, 1955) was an American [[track and field|track]] athlete and is widely regarded as one of the best [[Sprint (running)|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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78496 |title=Archie Hahn |work=Olympedia |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref>

==Biography==
Having won sprint events at the 1903 American and Canadian championships, Hahn— born in [[Dodgeville, Wisconsin]],<ref name="Obit">{{cite news|title=Archie Hahn, Ex-Olympic Star, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20946517/archie_hahn_18801955/|newspaper=The La Crosse Tribune|date=January 23, 1955|page=24|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = June 14, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> but running for the [[University of Michigan]]<ref name="Obit"/>— was among the favorites at the [[1904 Summer Olympics|1904 Olympic Games]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], which was poorly attended by European athletes.

In the first event at those Games, the 60 m, Hahn benefited from his quick start and won, making him a favorite for the remaining events he was entered in, the 100 m and 200 m. His run in the 200 m final delivered him the gold and a good time, although the latter was flattered, because the race was run on a straight course. In his third event, he again outclassed the field, thus winning all sprint events.
[[File:1904 Olympic sprint.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Hahn in 1904]]
In [[Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games|1906]], the "Milwaukee Meteor" repeated his Olympic 100 m victory in Athens,<ref name="Obit"/> a feat not equaled until 1988, when [[Carl Lewis]] won the 100 m twice in a row (after the disqualification of [[Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter)|Ben Johnson]]). In 1910 he outran a racehorse in a 50-yard dash at the Wisconsin State Fair.<ref name="Obit"/>

After his running career, Hahn became a coach and wrote the classic book ''How to Sprint'' issued by the [[Spalding Athletic Library]] collection which was published by American Sports Publishing Co. He coached track and number of other sports at [[Pacific University]] in [[Forest Grove, Oregon]], [[Monmouth College]] in [[Monmouth, Illinois]],<ref name="Obit"/> [[Whitman College]], [[Brown University]], Michigan, [[Princeton University]], and the [[University of Virginia]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Galliford |first=Walt |date=April 5, 1943 |title=Archie Hahn—Little Man With Big Stride |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1807&dat=19430405&id=Gg4tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AWkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6618,2739141 |newspaper=[[The Cavalier Daily]] |access-date=February 24, 2014 }}</ref> At Virginia he led the Cavaliers to 12 state championships in 13 years. He died in 1955, in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]].

In 1929 Hahn's book "How to Sprint" was issued by the Spalding Athletic Library.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hahn |first=Archie |title=How To Sprint |url=http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/how_to_sprint-the_theory_of_sprint_racing_1929.pdf |access-date=October 23, 2020 }}</ref>

Hahn was elected to the [[Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame]] in 1959. He was inducted into the [[University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor]] in 1984 and the [[Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum|Virginia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1991.
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He is the grandfather of the actor / comedian [[Archie Hahn (actor)|Archie Hahn]].

==Head coaching record==
===College football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Pacific Boxers football|Pacific Badgers]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1907
 | endyear   = 1908
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1907 college football season|1907]]
 | name         = Pacific
 | overall      = 3–3
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1908 college football season|1908]]
 | name         = Pacific
 | overall      = 2–3
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Pacific
 | overall    = 5–6
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Monmouth Fighting Scots football|Monmouth Fighting Scots]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1910
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1910 college football season|1910]]
 | name         = Monmouth
 | overall      = 1–6–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Monmouth
 | overall    = 1–6–1
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Whitman Fighting Missionaries football|Whitman Fighting Missionaries]]
 | conf      = [[Northwest Conference (1908–1925)|Northwest Conference]]
 | startyear = 1911
 | endyear   = 1914
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1911 college football season|1911]]
 | name         = [[1911 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football team|Whitman]]
 | overall      = 1–4
 | conference   = 0–4
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1912 college football season|1912]]
 | name         = [[1912 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football team|Whitman]]
 | overall      = 2–2
 | conference   = 2–2
 | confstanding = T–2nd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1913 college football season|1913]]
 | name         = [[1913 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football team|Whitman]]
 | overall      = 1–4
 | conference   = 0–4
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1914 college football season|1914]]
 | name         = [[1914 Whitman Fighting Missionaries football team|Whitman]]
 | overall      = 0–4
 | conference   = 0–4
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Whitman
 | overall    = 4–14
 | confrecord = 2–14
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 10–26–1
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}
<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=Monmouth College Football Record Book |url=https://monmouthscots.com/documents/2023/7/18/Football_records_2023.docx |publisher=[[Monmouth College]] |pages=2–3 |access-date=January 2, 2025 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons}}
* [https://vasportshof.com/inductee/archie-hahn/ Virginia Sports Hall of Fame profile]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310011411/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=HAHNARC01 dataOlympics profile]
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* {{Find a Grave}}

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