John Joseph "Johnny" Kelley (December 24, 1930 – August 21, 2011) was an American long-distance runner who won the 1957 Boston Marathon and the marathon at the 1959 Pan American Games. He was also a member of the United States Olympic teams of 1956 and 1960, competing in the marathon. He was often dubbed "Kelley the Younger" to avoid confusion with Johnny Kelley (1907–2004; "Kelley the Elder"), winner of the 1935 and 1945 Boston Marathons; the two men were not related. Career summary Kelley was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He began racing in marathons during his college years. From 1950–54, he attended Boston University, located about a mile from the Boston Marathon finish line. While there, he excelled in team races and would run his first two Boston Marathons, in 1953 and 1954. He finished fifth in the 1953 race before following up with a 7th-place finish the next year. After graduating, he finished 2nd in the 1956 Boston Marathon and made his way onto the U.S. Olympic Marathon team which competed in Melbourne, Australia during the same year. He would go on to win the Boston Marathon outright in 1957 while setting a new course record on the remeasured course. After his win at Boston, Kelley would win several other marathons, including eight consecutive wins of the Yonkers Marathon in Yonkers, New York. During all those years, the Yonkers Marathon served as the National Championship. As a result of his record setting performance at Yonkers in 1960, he again found his way onto the U.S. Olympic Marathon team and competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome. He placed 21st and 19th in the Melbourne and Rome Olympic marathons, respectively. Boston Marathon results 1953 2:28:19 5th 1954 2:28:51 7th 1956 2:14:33 2nd 1957 2:20:05 1st 1958 2:30:51 2nd 1959 2:23:43 2nd 1960 DNF 1961 2:23:54 2nd 1962 2:28:37 4th 1963 2:21:09 2nd 1964 2:27:23 7th 1965 2:25:23 14th 1967 2:25:25 12th 1968 2:37:03 15th 1969 2:31:36 22nd 1970 2:36:50 63rd 1971 2:44:10 96th 1972 2:40:05 79th 1973 2:41:13 66th 1974 2:32:18 78th 1975 2:34:11 169th 1976 2:46:43 154th 1977 2:46:26 353rd 1980 2:55:45 1982 2:55:50 1983 2:55:30 1984 2:58:35 1986 3:01:40 1987 3:08:46 1988 3:28:53 1989 3:46:50 1992 4:07:32 Other milestones Kelley is the only male runner to ever win both the Boston Marathon and the Mount Washington Road Race, which he won in 1961. Another runner, Jacqueline Gareau, has