Marathon List for 1955


Albania
ALB   ?? Sep  Tirana                                        Albanian Championship                   2:52:35     Hasan Dinia (ALB)                           none                            
Argentina
ARG   17 Oct  Buenos Aires                                  Lacoste-Luisi                           2:39:16     Armando Belivet (ARG)                       none                            
Australia
AUS   16 Jul  Melbourne                      3              Victorian Marathon Club                 2:35:40     Michael Skinner (29,AUS)                    none                            
AUS   24 Sep  Sydney                                        New South Wales Championship            2:22:18     Keith Ollerenshaw (26,AUS)                  none                            
AUS   01 Oct  Melbourne                     16              Victoria Championship                   2:44:54     Michael Skinner (29,AUS)                    none                            
Austria
AUT   18 Sep  Linz                                          Austrian Championship                   2:36:50     Adolf Gruber (35,AUT)                       none                            
Belgium
BEL   09 Jul  Brussels                                      Belgian Championship                    2:44:47     Jules Limbourg (BEL)                        none                            
Bulgaria
BUL   09 Oct  Sofia                                         Bulgarian Championship                  2:39:11     Georgi Penchev (BUL)                        none                            
Canada
CAN   24 May  Hamilton ON                                   n/a                                     2:31:50.5   Gordon Dickson (23,ON/CAN)                  none                            
CAN   20 Aug  Three Rivers PQ                               Canadian National                       3:00:55     Ted Corbitt (36,NY/USA)                     none                            
CAN   26 Sep  Saint John's NF                6      3+0     Newfoundland Provincial Championships   3:02:09     Greg Doyle (NF/CAN)                         none                            
Czech Republic
CZE   29 Jun  Prague                                        n/a                                     2:34:24.4   Drahomir Pechanek (31,CZE)                  none                            
CZE   24 Jul  Domazlice                      7              Domazlicky                              2:43:17     Jaroslav Fiala (31,CZE)                     none                            
CZE   21 Aug  Upice                          6              Vitezove Ratiborickeho                  2:39:35     Walter Bednar (29,CZE)                      none                            
CZE   11 Sep  Ostrava                        2              Ostravsky                               2:28:38.0   Walter Bednar (29,CZE)                      none                            
Denmark
DEN   27 Jul  Odense                                        Danish Championship                     2:39:51.6   Poul Nielsen (32,DEN)                       none                            
DEN   04 Sep  Copenhagen                                    n/a                                     2:21:21.6   Veikko Karvonen (29,FIN)                    none                            
Egypt
EGY   01 May  Cairo                                         n/a                                     2:33:45     Ali Hamed (EGY)                             none                            
England
ENG   11 Apr  Sheffield                     13              Doncaster to Sheffield                  2:35:36.4a  Ernest Kirkup (25,ENG)                      none                            
ENG   30 Apr  Hull                           3              Hull                                    2:28:21     Eric Losthouse (33,ENG)                     none                            
ENG   30 May  Peterborough                                  Brotherhoods                            2:31:50     Eric Losthouse (33,ENG)                     none                            
ENG   18 Jun  Chiswick                      42    137+0     Polytechnic                             2:26:22a    William McMinnis (39,ENG)                   none                            
ENG   26 Jun  n/a                                           Midland Counties Championship           2:43:10     Brian Ashwell (22,ENG)                      none                            
ENG   23 Jul  Reading                                       AAA Championship                        2:39:35     William McMinnis (39,ENG)                   none                            
ENG   13 Aug  Liverpool                     12              Liverpool                               2:34:25     Arthur Keily (34,ENG)                       none                            
Spain
ESP   19 Jun  Barcelona                                     Spanish Championship                    2:46:42     Jaime Guixa (ESP)                           none                            
ESP   18 Jul  Barcelona                      2              Mediterranean Games                     2:50:35     Mahmoud Abdul Kerim (EGY)                   none                            
Estonia
EST   04 Sep  Tartu                                 8+0     Estonian Championship                   2:35:52.2   Viktor Puusepp (28,EST)                     none                            
Finland
FIN   07 Aug  Rauma                                         Finnish Championship                    2:26:29     Paavo Kotila (28,FIN)                       none                            
FIN   25 Sep  Turku                          8              Turku                                   2:38:54     Eino Jarvinen (40,FIN)                      none                            
FIN   25 Sep  Vaasa                                         n/a                                     2:28:58     Pauli Pellinen (31,FIN)                     none                            
France
FRA   18 Sep  Chambery                              8+0     French Championship                     2:48:44     Joseph Pezier (FRA)                         none                            
Georgia
GEO   13 Nov  Tbilisi                              50+0     n/a                                     2:21:23.8   Symen Kuznetsov (27,RUS)                    none                            
Germany
GER   24 Apr  Eilendorf                                     Aachen-Eilendorf                        2:31:53     Gunther Leifhelm (28,GER)                   none                            
GER   12 Jun  Bad Nenndorf                                  n/a (B race)                            2:37:41     August Blumensaat (44,GER)                  none                            
GER   12 Jun  Bad Nenndorf                                  n/a                                     2:31:40     Hans Vollbach (33,GER)                      none                            
GER   17 Jul  Meissen                                       n/a                                     2:36:05.8   Kurt Hartung (30,GER)                       none                            
GER   31 Jul  Chemnitz                                      n/a                                     2:36:48.4   Walter Troger (38,GER)                      none                            
GER   06 Aug  Frankfurt am Main                    59+0     West German Championship                2:41:00.0   Hans Vollbach (34,GER)                      none                            
GER   18 Sep  Leipzig                                       East German Championship                2:31:24.6   Kurt Hartung (30,GER)                       none                            
GER   16 Oct  Altenrath                                     n/a                                     2:27:41.0   August Blumensaat (44,GER)                  none                            
Greece
GRE   22 May  Athens                                        Greek Championship                      3:14:43.6   Christos Klapsinikas (GRE)                  none                            
GRE   02 Oct  Athens                         1              Athens International                    2:27:30a    Veikko Karvonen (29,FIN)                    none                            
Hungary
HUN   29 May  Szeged                                        n/a                                     2:34:48.6   Jozsef Kiss (46,HUN)                        none                            
HUN   04 Sep  Budapest                                      Hungarian Championship                  2:31:53.6   Bela Juhasz (34,HUN)                        none                            
India
IND   ?? Feb  Kolkata                                       n/a                                     2:39:15.6   Gurucharan Singh (IND)                      none                            
Ireland
IRL   31 Jul  Crumlin                                       All Ireland Championships (NACA)        2:48:50     Patsy McCabe (NIR)                          none                            
Italy
ITA   10 Sep  Naples                                        Italian Championship                    2:33:05     Artidoro Berti (35,ITA)                     none                            
Japan
JPN   06 Feb  Ome                            3              Yomiuri Zenkoku                         2:29:40     Hidenori Baba (21,JPN)                      none                            
JPN   13 Feb  Beppu                          3     13+0     Beppu Mainichi                          2:29:19     Katsuo Nishida (26,JPN)                     none                            
JPN   27 Feb  Naha                           1              Shinpo Naha                             3:25:16     Masayasu Tawada (JPN)                       none                            
JPN   08 May  Osaka                         10              Mainichi                                2:26:32     Kurao Hiroshima (26,JPN)                    none                            
JPN   11 Dec  Fukuoka                        9     35+0     Asahi Shimbun                           2:23:16     Veikko Karvonen (29,FIN)                    none                            
JPN   18 Dec  Kochi                         10              Kochi Shinbun                           2:34:43     Hiroyoshi Nagai (JPN)                       none                            
Korea
KOR   25 Jun  Kwangju                                       n/a                                     2:25:15     Yoon-Chil Choi (26,KOR)                     none                            
KOR   18 Oct  Seoul                                         Korean Championship                     2:30:05     Yeong-Bun Kim (20,KOR)                      none                            
Mexico
MEX   19 Mar  Mexico City                    3              Pan American Games                      2:59:10     Doroteo Flores (GUA)                        none                            
MEX   10 Jul  Cuernavaca                     1              Rover Scout Mexico                      6:45:xx     Jose Miguel Quintana (MEX)                  none                            
Netherlands; The
NED   05 Jun  Rotterdam                                     n/a                                     2:39:43.6   Janus vanderZande (30,NED)                  none                            
NED   27 Aug  Enschede                       5              Enschede                                2:26:33     Reinaldo Gorno (37,ARG)                     none                            
Northern Ireland
NIR   04 Jun  Belfast                       10              n/a                                     2:38:51     John Dawson (NIR)                           none                            
NIR   02 Jul  Belfast                                       All-Ireland Championships (NIAA/AAU)    2:33:00x    Harry Cooney (IRL)                          none                            
Norway
NOR   31 Jul  Lunde                                         Norwegian Championship                  2:43:14     John Systad (42,NOR)                        none                            
New Zealand
NZL   ?? Jan  Invercargill                   4      2+0     Southland                               2:34:07.4a  Melvin Munro (NZL)                          none                            
NZL   22 Jan  Christchurch                   6              Canterbury Championship                 2:31:28     Albert "Bill" Richards (30,NZL)             none                            
NZL   ?? Mar  Auckland                                      New Zealand Championship                2:42:34     Arthur Lydiard (37,NZL)                     none                            
NZL   ?? Dec  Feilding                       1              Feilding                                3:09:00     Norm Pearce (NZL)                           none                            
Poland
POL   06 Aug  Warsaw                         2              International Youth Sport's Games       2:28:41.8   Ivan Filin (29,RUS)                         none                            
POL   23 Oct  Lodz                                          Polish Championships                    2:36:41.4   Benedykt Gugala (30,POL)                    none                            
Portugal
POR   02 Oct  Lisbon                                        Portuguese Championship                 2:28:53.4   Jose Araujo (31,POR)                        none                            
Romania
ROM   02 Oct  Bucharest                                     Romanian Championship                   2:27:02     Eino Pulkkinnen (29,FIN)                    none                            
South Africa
RSA   09 Mar  Bellville                                     n/a                                     2:54:xx     Fred vanderMerwe (RSA)                      none                            
RSA   12 Mar  Bethlehem                                     n/a                                     2:56:21     Frans Mare (RSA)                            none                            
RSA   09 Apr  Pretoria                                      South African Championship              2:36:39.6   Johannes Barnard (25,RSA)                   none                            
RSA   23 Jul  East London                                   n/a                                     2:50:49     Jackie Mekler (22,RSA)                      none                            
RSA   04 Aug  Johannesburg                  10              Jackie Gibson                           2:42:37     Mercer Davies (30,RSA)                      none                            
RSA   10 Oct  Durban                                        n/a                                     2:36:17     Gerald Walsh (RSA)                          none                            
RSA   10 Oct  Johannesburg                                  Southern Transvaal Championship         2:49:54     Jackie Mekler (23,RSA)                      none                            
RSA   23 Oct  Durban                                        n/a                                     2:42:55     Gerald Walsh (RSA)                          none                            
RSA   ?? Nov  Durban                        23              Durban Athletic Club                    2:40:23     Mercer Davies (30,RSA)                      none                            
Russia
RUS   10 Jul  Moscow                                        Soviet Championships                    2:23:09.6   Ivan Filin (29,RUS)                         none                            
Scotland
SCO   25 Jun  Edinburgh                                     Scottish Championship                   2:25:50a    Joe McGhee (25,SCO)                         none                            
SCO   20 Aug  Edinburgh                                     Edinburgh Highland Games                2:31:04.3a  Ernest Kirkup (26,ENG)                      none                            
Switzerland
SUI   04 Sep  Zurich                                        Swiss Championship                      2:38:09.8   Jules Zehnder (29,SUI)                      none                            
Slovakia
SVK   25 Sep  Cadca                          3              Kysucky                                 2:40:00     Gustav Belsky (35,SVK)                      none                            
SVK   16 Oct  Kosice                        30     73+0     Kosice                                  2:25:40     John-Evert Nyberg (30,SWE)                  none                            
Sweden
SWE   31 Jul  Sala                                          Swedish Championship                    2:40:51     John-Evert Nyberg (30,SWE)                  none                            
Trinidad and Tobago
TRI   27 Feb  Port of Spain                  2      6+0     AAA                                     2:49:30a    Claude McShine (TRI)                        none                            
Turkey
TUR   14 Aug  Istanbul                      15              Balkan Games                            2:51:33.7   Haydar Erturan (TUR)                        none                            
United States
USA   30 Jan  Philadelphia PA                2              Shanahan Catholic Club                  2:25:23x    John J Kelley (24,CT/USA)                   none                            
USA   ?? Mar  Honolulu HI                    3              Hawaiian AAU                            3:36:31     Norman Tamanaha (47,HI/USA)                 none                            
USA   03 Apr  Petaluma CA                   21              Petaluma Spartan                        2:53:25     Jesse vanZant (32,USA)                      none                            
USA   19 Apr  Boston MA                     58              Boston                                  2:18:22x    Hideo Hamamura (26,JPN)                     none                            
USA   01 May  Philadelphia PA                               Fairmount Park                          2:38:20     Ted Corbitt (36,NY/USA)                     none                            
USA   22 May  Yonkers NY                    31              Yonkers                                 2:31:12.4   Nicholas Costes (28,AL/USA)                 none                            
USA   01 Oct  Culver City CA                 8              Western Hemisphere                      2:37:21     Robert Cons (25,CA/USA)                     none                            
Wales
WAL   26 Jun  Cardiff                                       Welsh Championships                     2:35:42     Thomas Richards (45,WAL)                    none                            
Zimbabwe
ZIM   20 Feb  Harare                                        n/a                                     2:48:30.2   David Dodds (ZIM)                           none                            
ZIM   26 Jun  Harare                                        n/a                                     2:42:00     David Dodds (ZIM)                           none                            
ZIM   04 Dec  Bulawayo                                      n/a                                     2:33:00x    David Dodds (ZIM)                           none                            

Last Updated on 07 Jan 2016