Fred Kelly

Fred Kelly
Fred Kelly (1912)
Full name	Frederick Warren Kelly
nation	United States
birthday	September 12, 1891
place of birth	Beaumont ,  USA
size	182 cm
Weight	72 kg
date of death	May 7th 1974
Place of death	Medford , USA
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	110 m hurdles: 14.6 s
society	USC Trojans
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Stockholm 1912 110 m hurdles

Fred Kelly (actually: Frederick Warren Kelly ; born September 12, 1891 in Orange , California , † May 7, 1974 in Medford , Oregon ) was an American hurdler and Olympic champion .

At the 1912 Olympics , Kelly won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.1 seconds after the real favorite, John Nicholson, fell on the eighth hurdle. Shortly after the games, Kelly was surprisingly defeated in Reims by the all-rounder Jim Thorpe , who equalized the world record of 15.0 seconds.

In 1913 Kelly also managed to stop this time, but this achievement was never recognized as a world record. In 1916 it ran for 14.6 seconds, but this time too there was no official recognition. In 1913 Kelly became a champion of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). In 1919, in his last year as an active player, he finished second in the AAU championship, as in 1916.

Fred Kelly was 1.82 m tall and weighed 72 kg during his playing days. After his career he began a career as a pilot in the emerging civil aviation. In 1946 he resigned as chief pilot of Western Airlines and went into retirement.

literature

• Bill Mallon & Ian Buchanan: Quest for Gold. New York City 1984, ISBN 0-88011-217-4
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Fred Kelly in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Scene from the Stockholm final:
Kelly on the far left in the lead