Thomas J. Fleming (July 23, 1951 – April 19, 2017) was an American distance runner who won the 1973 and 1975 New York City Marathon.
Fleming was the winner of the Cleveland, Toronto, Los Angeles, Jersey Shore (3 times) and Washington DC marathons in the 1970s.
He set a personal best of 2:12:05 in the Boston Marathon 1975, and was renowned for running 110 to 150 miles per week to train for road racing.
For 12 years, Fleming was the meet director for the Sunset Classic 5 mile road race in his hometown of Bloomfield.
[6] Fleming was a teacher and head coach of the varsity cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field teams at the Montclair Kimberley Academy.