Arthur Lydiard
Arthur Leslie Lydiard, ONZ, OBE, (6 July 1917 - 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach.
He coached such atheletes as Murray Halberg, Peter Snell, John Walker, Dick Quax, Dick Tayler to Olympic and Commonwealth Games Medals. continue list....
He became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1962 and in 1990 was made an Additional Member of Order of New Zealand. He also became a life member of Athletics New Zealand in 2003.
He died on the 11th of December 2004 of a suspected heart attack in Texas while on a lecture tour.