Marathon List for 1951


Albania
ALB   ?? Sep  Tirana                                        Albanian Championship                   2:57:50     Aleksey Ruci (ALB)                          none                            
Argentina
ARG   06 Mar  Buenos Aires                   2              Pan American Games                      2:35:00.2   Delfo Cabrera (31,ARG)                      none                            
Australia
AUS   05 Mar  Hobart                                4+0     Australian Championship                 2:59:44.6   Gordon Stanley (31,AUS)                     none                            
AUS   15 Sep  Sydney                                        New South Wales Championships           2:45:24     Robert Prentice (34,AUS)                    none                            
AUS   ?? Sep  Sydney                                        Olympic Trial                           2:50:45     Claude Smeal (AUS)                          none                            
AUS   20 Oct  Melbourne                                     Victorian State Championships           2:40:40.0   Robert Prentice (34,AUS)                    none                            
AUS   01 Dec  Melbourne                                     Olympic Trial                           2:38:25.4   Robert Prentice (34,AUS)                    none                            
AUS   20 Dec  Melbourne                                     Olympic Trial                           2:31:51.4   Robert Prentice (34,AUS)                    none                            
Austria
AUT   23 Sep  Graz                                          Austrian Championship                   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      4+0     Newfoundland Provincial Championships   2:58:50     George Hillier (21,NF/CAN)                  none                            
Czech Republic
CZE   12 Aug  Upice                          2              Ratiboricky                             2:38:24     Drahomir Pechanek (28,CZE)                  none                            
CZE   23 Sep  Domazlice                      4              Domazlicky                              2:42:17     Vaclav Weishautel (38,CZE)                  none                            
Denmark
DEN   10 Jul  Helsingor                                     Danish Championship                     2:40:41.6   Svend Erik-Olaf Sorensen (33,DE             none                            
Egypt
EGY   12 Oct  Alexandria                     1              Mediterranean Games                     3:07:25     Ahmet Aytar (29,TUR)                        none                            
England
ENG   26 Mar  Sheffield                      9              Doncaster to Sheffield                  2:35:00a    Bert Hemsley (ENG)                          none                            
ENG   16 Jun  Chiswick                      38    108+0     Polytechnic                             2:29:28a    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                                  Brotherhoods                            2:34:06     Charles Busby (GBR)                         none                            
ENG   11 Aug  Liverpool                      8              Liverpool                               2:37:40     William McMinnis (35,ENG)                   none                            
Spain
ESP   14 Oct  Zaragosa                                      Spanish Championship                    2:41:19.4   Pedro Sierra (25,ESP)                       none                            
Estonia
EST   30 Sep  Tallinn                                       Estonian Championship                   2:42:24     Nikolai Kanajev (40,EST)                    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  Seinajoki                                     n/a                                     2:46:35.0   Niilo Joensuu (24,FIN)                      none                            
FIN   02 Sep  Rajamaki                                      n/a                                     2:33:07.0   Veikko Timonen (35,FIN)                     none                            
FIN   30 Sep  Turku                          4              Turku                                   2:30:52.8   Erkki Puolakka (26,FIN)                     none                            
France
FRA   22 Jul  Colombes                             10+0     French Championships                    2:45:16.8   Charles Cerou (33,FRA)                      none                            
Germany
GER   28 Jul  Dusseldorf                           62+0     West German Championship                2:46:06     Wilfried Hogrefe (29,GER)                   none                            
GER   15 Sep  Leipzig                              31+0     East German Championship                2:51:44.6   Horst Werner (27,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   06 May  Athens                                        Greek Championship                      2:55:38     Dimitrios Dervenis (GRE)                    none                            
GRE   18 Aug  Athens                                        n/a                                     2:40:45     Wilfried Hogrefe (29,GER)                   none                            
Hungary
HUN   06 Sep  Godollo                                       Hungarian Championship                  2:48:47.6   Istvan Simon (38,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   11 Mar  New Delhi                                     Asian Games                             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 (25,ITA)                      none                            
Japan
JPN   04 Feb  Ube                                           Seibu                                   2:28:16     Shigeki Tanaka (18,JPN)                     none                            
JPN   04 Feb  Yamaguchi                      1              Seibu                                   2:28:16     Shigeki Tanaka (18,JPN)                     none                            
JPN   18 Mar  Marugame                       5              Kagawa                                  2:39:41     Toshio Fuke (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                          2              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   02 Dec  Kochi                          6              Kochi Shinbun                           3:01:16     Ichiro Murata (JPN)                         none                            
JPN   09 Dec  Fukuoka                        5              Asahi Shimbun                           2:30:13     Hiromi Haigo (JPN)                          none                            
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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 (44,NED)                      none                            
NED   01 Sep  Enschede                       3              Enschede                                2:29:02.0   Veikko Karvonen (25,FIN)                    none                            
Northern Ireland
NIR   ?? ???  Belfast                        6              Belfast                                 n/a         John Henning (42,NIR)                       none                            
NIR   23 Jun  Belfast                                       All-Ireland Championships (NIAA/AAU)    2:44:53.8   John Henning (42,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                               15+0     Polish Championship                     2:43:06     Winandiusz Osinski (38,POL)                 none                            
Portugal
POR   08 Apr  Lisbon                                        Portuguese Championship                 2:32:26x    Manuel Goncalves (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 (25,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   01 Oct  Johannesburg                                  Southern Transvaal Championship         3:00:09     Bob Herselemen (RSA)                        none                            
RSA   ?? Nov  Durban                        19              Durban Atheletic Club                   2:51:15     Trevor Allen (RSA)                          none                            
Russia
RUS   15 Jul  Moscow                                        Soviet Championship                     2:42:05.2   Yakov Mostachenkov (34,RUS)                 none                            
Scotland
SCO   23 Jun  Glasgow                                       Scottish Championship                   2:43:23     Jack Paterson (37,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 (25,SUI)                none                            
Slovakia
SVK   28 Oct  Kosice                        26     69+0     Kosice                                  2:41:07.8   Jaroslav Strupp (35,CZE)                    none                            
Sweden
SWE   08 Jul  Halmstad                                      Swedish Championship                    2:31:43     Gustaf-Nils Jansson (29,SWE)                none                            
Taiwan
TPE   27 Oct  Taipei                                        n/a                                     2:40:00     Loung-seng Hang (TPE)                       none                            
Trinidad and Tobago
TRI   16 Dec  Port of Spain                  1      5+0     AAA                                     2:49:05a    Archie Cupidore (TRI)                       none                            
Turkey
TUR   13 May  Istanbul                                      Turkish Championship                    2:44:49.7   Ahmet Aytar (28,TUR)                        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 (28,USA)                      none                            
USA   30 May  Laconia NH                           26+0     New Hampshire                           2:45:20     John Lafferty (33,CA/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 (33,CA/USA)                   none                            
Wales
WAL   28 Jul  Margam                                        Welsh Championship                      2:42:00     Horace Oliver (36,WAL)                      none                            

Last Updated on 07 Jan 2016