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...world's fastest distance runner: long-legged, hollow-cheeked, 24-year-old Gunder Hägg (rhymes with egg) of Gavle, Sweden...
...since Finn Paavo Nurmi's memorable visit nearly a generation ago has a European athlete started for the U.S. with a better build-up than Gunder Hägg. Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters (slightly over three miles). From sketchy reports U.S. track fans pieced together an extraordinary figure: a fireman by trade, so thin he looks like an inmate of a Jap prison camp, and yet rugged enough to run a mile in 4:04.6, two miles in 8:47.8, three miles...
When a reporter once asked him if he had a slow pulse like Nurmi's (46), Gunder Hägg admitted that he had never bothered to notice (he has since discovered that it is low-48 at rest). He also scoffs at stop watches, diets and training rules. "I run," says he, "the way my muscles and nerves tell me. When I feel the time has come to sprint, I sprint...
Like Babe Ruth, gaunt and gainly Gunder Hägg has become popular with Swedish newsmen because of his ability to call his shots in advance. Last summer, during a track meet in Stockholm's Stadion, he announced that he would break the world's record for the mile the next...
...Swedish Athletic Union for about $4 worth of listed travel expenses), Hägg retired to the hills of his native Jaemtland, vowed that he would be back to avenge that disgrace. Two days after his suspension was lifted he cracked the mile record, 48 hours later the twomile. Gunder Hägg's latest prediction: he will some day run a mile in four minutes flat, thinks California is the place where he might...