Marathon List for 1951

Argentina
ARG  06 Mar  Buenos Aires                                   n/a                                     2:35:00.2   Delfo Cabrera (31,ARG)                      none
Australia
AUS  05 Mar  Hobart                                         Australian Championship                 2:59:44.6   Gordon Stanley (AUS)                        none
AUS  20 Oct  Melbourne                                      n/a                                     2:40:40.0   Robert A Prentice (34,AUS)                  none
AUS  01 Dec  Melbourne                                      n/a                                     2:38:25.4   Robert A Prentice (34,AUS)                  none
AUS  20 Dec  Melbourne                                      n/a                                     2:31:51.4   Robert A Prentice (34,AUS)                  none
Austria
AUT  ?? ???  n/a                                            n/a                                     2:45:47     Alois Wagner (29,AUT)                       none
Bulgaria
BUL  14 Oct  Sofia                                          Bulgarian Championships                 2:39:02x    Nikola Vasilev (BUL)                        none
Canada
CAN  07 Jul  Hamilton ON                                    n/a                                     2:28:04     Walter Fedorick (33,CAN)                    none
CAN  08 Oct  Saint John's NF                2               Newfoundland Provincial Championships   2:58:50     George Hillier (NF/CAN)                     none
Czech Republic
CZE  12 Aug  Upice                          2               Ratiboricky                             2:38:24     Drahomir Pechanek (CZE)                     none
CZE  23 Sep  Domazlice                      8               Domazlicky                              2:42:17     Vaclav Weishautel (38,CZE)                  none
Denmark
DEN  10 Jul  Helsingor                                      Danish Championship                     2:40:41.6   Svend-Erik Sørensen (DEN)                   none
England
ENG  26 Mar  Sheffield                                      Doncaster to Sheffield                  2:35:00a    Bert Hemsley (ENG)                          none
ENG  16 Jun  Windsor                       39               Polytechnic                             2:29:28     James Henry Peters (32,ENG)                 none
ENG  21 Jul  Birmingham                                     AAA                                     2:31:42     James Henry Peters (32,ENG)                 none
ENG  ?? ???  n/a                                            Midland Championship                    2:46:19     Arthur E Cooper (ENG)                       none
ENG  06 Aug  Peterborough                                   n/a                                     2:34:06     Charles Busby (GBR)                         none
ENG  11 Aug  Liverpool                                      n/a                                     2:37:40     William McMinnis (35,ENG)                   none
Spain
ESP  14 Oct  Zaragosa                                       Spanish Championship                    2:41:19.4   Pedro Sierra (ESP)                          none
Finland
FIN  01 Jul  Hameenlinna                                    Finnish Championships                   2:28:46.6   Veikko Karvonen (25,FIN)                    none
FIN  03 Aug  Tampere                                        n/a                                     2:28:07.4   Veikko Karvonen (25,FIN)                    none
FIN  07 Aug  Seinäjoki                                      n/a                                     2:46:35.0   Niilo Joensuu (24,FIN)                      none
FIN  02 Sep  Rajamäki                                       n/a                                     2:33:07.0   Veikko Timonen (36,FIN)                     none
FIN  30 Sep  Turku                                          Turku                                   2:30:52.8   Erkki Puolakka (26,FIN)                     none
France
FRA  22 Jul  Colombes                                       French Championships                    2:45:16.8   Charles Cerou (FRA)                         none
Germany
GER  28 Jul  Dusseldorf                                     n/a                                     2:46:06     Wilfried Hogrefe (29,GER)                   none
GER  15 Sep  Leipzig                                        n/a                                     2:51:44.6   Horst Werner (GER)                          none
GER  23 Sep  Wetzlar                                        n/a                                     2:38:14     Janus vanderZande (27,NED)                  none
GER  07 Oct  Weilburg                                       n/a                                     2:42:56     August Blumensaat (40,GER)                  none
Greece
GRE  18 Aug  Athens                                         n/a                                     2:40:45     Wilfried Hogrefe (29,GER)                   none
Hungary
HUN  06 Sep  Gödöllo                                        n/a                                     2:48:47.6   Istvan Simon (HUN)                          none
HUN  28 Oct  Budapest                                       n/a                                     2:32:18.8   Jozef Dobronyi (34,HUN)                     none
India
IND  ?? Feb  Ludhiana                                       Indian Championship                     2:49:51.6   Chhota Singh (IND)                          none
IND  ?? Mar  New Delhi                                      n/a                                     2:42:58.6   Chhota Singh (IND)                          none
Ireland
IRL  04 Aug  Crumlin                                        All Ireland Championships (NACA)        3:05:14     Joe Williams (IRL)                          none
Italy
ITA  04 Nov  Palermo                                        Italian Championship                    2:48:55.0   Asfo Bussotti (ITA)                         none
Japan
JPN  04 Feb  Ube                                            Seibu                                   2:28:16     Shigeki Tanaka (18,JPN)                     none
JPN  21 Mar  Yawata                                         n/a                                     2:32:58     Haruo Okamoto (JPN)                         none
JPN  26 Mar  Takamatsu                                      n/a                                     2:39:41     Toshio Fuke (JPN)                           none
JPN  06 May  Osaka                          6               Mainichi                                2:32:41     Tadashi Asai (JPN)                          none
JPN  27 May  Tokyo                                          Kanto Inter-Collegiate Games            2:37:50     Katsuo Nishida (22,JPN)                     none
JPN  14 Oct  Nagoya                                         n/a                                     2:31:26     Kiyoshi Shinozaki (JPN)                     none
JPN  09 Dec  Fukuoka                        5               Asahi Shimbun                           2:30:13     Hiromi Haiho (JPN)                          none
Korea
KOR  28 Oct  Pusan                                          Korean Championship                     2:25:15x    Yoon-Chil Choi (23,KOR)                     none
Netherlands; The
NED  05 Aug  Schoondijke                                    Dutch Championship                      2:43:42     Joop Overdijk (NED)                         none
NED  01 Sep  Enschede                       3               Enschede                                2:29:02.0   Veikko Karvonen (25,FIN)                    none
Northern Ireland
NIR  23 Jun  Belfast                                        All-Ireland Championships (NIAA/AAU)    2:44:53.8   John Henning (NIR)                          
Norway
NOR  15 Jul  Bergen                                         Norwegian Championship                  2:39:30     John Systad (38,NOR)                        none
New Zealand
NZL  03 Mar  Wellington                                     New Zealand Championship                2:48:16     George Bromley (NZL)                        none
Poland
POL  30 Sep  Elblag                                         Polish Championship                     2:43:06     Winandiusz Osinski (38,POL)                 none
Portugal
POR  08 Apr  Lisbon                                         Portuguese Championship                 2:32:26x    Manuel Gonçalves (POR)                      none
Romania
ROM  25 Sep  Bucharest                                      Romanian Championship                   2:39:51     Vasile Teodosiu (34,ROM)                    none
South Africa
RSA  24 Mar  Pretoria                                       South African Championship              2:35:42.2   Sidney Luyt (RSA)                           none
RSA  08 Apr  Kimberley                                      n/a                                     2:41:21     William Keith (25,RSA)                      none
RSA  ?? Aug  Johannesburg                   6               Jackie Gibson                           2:38:55     William Keith (25,RSA)                      none
RSA  ?? Nov  Durban                        19               Durban Atheletic Club                   2:51:15     Trevor Allen (RSA)                          none
Russia
RUS  15 Jul  Moscow                                         n/a                                     2:42:05.2   Yakov Mostachenkov (34,RUS)                 none
Scotland
SCO  23 Jun  Glasgow                                        Scottish Championship                   2:43:23     Jack Paterson (SCO)                         none
SCO  08 Sep  Edinburgh                                      n/a                                     2:38:15     Charles D Robertson (32,SCO)                none
Switzerland
SUI  26 Aug  Zug                                            Swiss Championship                      2:42:36     Rudolf Morgenthaler (SUI)                   none
Slovakia
SVK  28 Oct  Kosice                        26               Kosice                                  2:41:07.8   Jaroslav Strupp (CZE)                       none
Sweden
SWE  08 Jul  Halmstad                                       Swedish Championship                    2:31:33     Gustaf Jansson (SWE)                        none
United States
USA  01 Apr  Petaluma CA                   17               Petaluma Spartan                        2:59:00     Chen-ling Wang (HKG)                        none
USA  19 Apr  Boston MA                     54               Boston                                  2:27:45x    Shigeki Tanaka (18,JPN)                     none
USA  27 May  Yonkers NY                    27               Yonkers                                 2:37:12.5   Jesse vanZant (27,USA)                      none
USA  17 Jun  Culver City CA                 4               n/a                                     2:45:10     Wen-gua Liu (CHN)                           none
USA  23 Jun  Old Orchard Beach ME                 21+0      National Junior AAU                     2:32:17     John Lafferty (33,CA/USA)                   none
USA  21 Oct  Baltimore MD                                   Baltimore                               2:43:06.5   John Lafferty (34,CA/USA)                   none
Wales
WAL  28 Jul  Margam                                         Welsh Championship                      2:42:00     Horace Oliver (WAL)                         none

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