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) noneLast Updated on 17 Apr 2008