[f. SPRINT v.] One who sprints or engages in sprint-racing.
1871. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Rur. Sports (ed. 9), II. VII. i. 539/2. The best amateur sprinters of the present day.
1889. Gunter, That Frenchman! vi. 65. He … runs wildly down the street, proving himself … a sprinter of first-rate speed.
1895. F. W. Shorland, in Windsor Mag., 120. [A. A.] Zimmerman is probably the fastest sprinter ever seen on a safety.
transf. 1899. C. Scott, Drama of Yesterday, I. xvi. 555. I do not think that the dramatic art has on the whole suffered much at the hands of the ‘sprinters’ on the press.
