Bill Rodgers won the Boston Marathon four times and set the course record twice.
Mary Etta Boitano started running marathons at age 5, and won her first marathon at age 10.
Gerry Lindgren set a U.S. high school record for the 5000 meters that would remain unbroken for 40 years.
Bob Anderson started Runner's World Magazine in 1966 at age 17, with $100.
President Obama awarded Billy Mills the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, and in 2014, Mills was awarded the NCAA's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Award.