Gyula Kellner

Gyula Kellner ( born April 11, 1871 in Budapest, † July 28, 1940 in Szolnok ) was a Hungarian long-distance runner, who finished third in the marathon was at the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

Waiter was among a total of 17 runners in this race the only one of four foreigners next 13 Greeks, who had previously ever been running a full marathon distance. Until about half the distance, these four foreigners were before the Greek persecutors, at kilometer 23 and 34, however, gave first to the American Arthur Blake and then the Frenchman Albin Lermusiaux. Waiter was gradually overtaken by three Greek runners; now also the leading Australian Edwin Flack had given up.

The finish came first as a waiter fourth with a time of 3:06:35 hours. When it turned out that the third-placed Spyridon Belokas had covered a portion of the route by wagon, waiters the third rank was awarded.

Gyula Kellner died a few months after the winner of the run, Spyridon Louis at the age of 69 years.