Lou Gregory

Lou Gregory was a distance runner who won 16 AAU championships at various distances. He won the 6-miles/10K seven times – 1929-31, 1933, 1939, 1941, and 1943. Gregory tried to return and make the 1936 Olympic team in the 5,000, but placed seventh at the Olympic Trials. He later turned exclusively to marathons, starting the late 1930s, finishing second in 1940, fourth in 1942, and sixth in 1945 at the US Championships. Gregory had run the Boston Marathon as far back as 1926. He ran it again during and after World War II, finishing second in 1942 and fourth in 1946. Gregory was a high school math teacher in the western New York area.

Personal Bests: 5000 – 15:11.0 (1935); 6 miles – 30:27.4 (1932); 10000 – 32:39.4 (1933).