Marathon List for 1937
Australia AUS 20 Nov Sydney New South Wales Championship 2:58:32 John Wood (AUS) none AUS 11 Dec Adelaide 1+0 Empire Games Trial 2:57:06 Ernest Jolly (AUS) none Austria AUT 25 Jul Klagenfurt Austrian Championship 2:44:09 Georg Balaban (24,AUT) none Bulgaria BUL ?? ??? n/a Bulgarian Championship 3:02:47 Boris Kharalambiev (29,BUL) none Canada CAN 18 Sep Toronto ON 18+0 Canadian Championship 2:41:30 James Bartlett (29,ON/CAN) none CAN 03 Oct Loretteville PQ n/a 2:41:xxx Gerard Cote (24,PQ/CAN) none Czech Republic CZE 30 May Prague 8 Masaryk's 2:51:28.2a Josef Bena (34,CZE) none CZE 20 Jun Podkozi Prague-Podkozi 2:45:13.6a Josef Pavlicek (27,CZE) none Denmark DEN 16 Aug Copenhagen Danish Championship 2:58:26 Carl Mikkelsen (DEN) none England ENG 29 May London 24 7+0 Polytechnic 2:48:50a Albert Norris (38,ENG) none ENG 26 Jun Coventry Midland Counties Championship 2:47:30 Jack Beman (40,ENG) none ENG 17 Jul London AAA Championship 2:37:19.2a Donald McNab Robertson (31,SCO) none Finland FIN 08 Aug Viipuri Finnish Championship 2:35:44.4 Vaino Muinonen (38,FIN) none France FRA 26 Sep Paris 25+0 French Championship 2:41:52.2 Desire Leriche (34,FRA) none Germany GER 30 May Dresden n/a 2:50:20 Fritz Jentzsch (32,GER) none GER 06 Jun Breslau n/a 3:01:38 Richard Barsicke (26,GER) none GER 25 Jul Berlin 93+0 German Championship 2:46:44.2 Werner Gnadig (29,GER) none GER 19 Sep Weilburg n/a 2:38:30 Wilhelm Borgsen (28,GER) none Greece GRE 27 Jun Athens Greek Championship 2:56:00 Stefanos Stefanou (GRE) none Hungary HUN 19 Sep Budapest Hungarian Championship 3:03:00 Jozsef Mucsi (24,HUN) none Ireland IRL 16 Jul Dublin All-Ireland Championship (NACA) 3:02:25 Jim Hayden (IRL) none Italy ITA 01 Aug Ferrara Italian Championship 2:40:13.4 Aurelio Genghini (29,ITA) none Japan JPN 11 Sep Nishinomiya n/a 2:36:09 Shinichi Nakamura (23,JPN) none JPN 10 Oct Aomori n/a 2:44:06 Kameo Fujita (JPN) none JPN 10 Oct Tokyo n/a 2:39:31 Katsumi Hama (JPN) none JPN 01 Nov Tokyo n/a 2:34:17 Jang-Chun Yoo (25,KOR) none JPN 03 Nov Tokyo n/a 2:36:42 Yojiro Matsuya (23,JPN) none JPN 28 Nov Tokyo n/a 2:35:08 Fusashige Suzuki (23,JPN) none Korea KOR 06 Oct Seoul Korean Championship 2:30:36x Jang-Chun Yoo (25,KOR) none Latvia LAT 12 Sep Riga Latvian Championship 2:59:26 Hermanis Grinbergs (LAT) none Netherlands; The NED 11 Jul Rotterdam Dutch Championship 2:44:14 Felix Meskens (31,BEL) none New Zealand NZL ?? ??? Auckland Auckland Provincial Championship 2:56:05 L B Smyth (NZL) none NZL ?? Nov Dunedin n/a 2:52:20 George Austin (NZL) none Poland POL 12 Sep Lodz Polish Championship 2:37:02.0 Stanislaw Przybylko (37,POL) none Portugal POR 28 Mar Lisbon Portuguese Championship 2:30:38 Manuel Dias (31,POR) none Romania ROM 11 Jul Bucharest Romanian Championship 3:14:55 Ion Tartareanu (ROM) none ROM 12 Sep Bucharest 9 Balkan Games 2:57:22 Stylianos Kyriakides (27,GRE) none South Africa RSA 27 Mar Bloemfontein South African Championship 2:30:45 Jackie Gibson (22,RSA) none RSA 01 May Durban n/a 2:32:44 Johannes Coleman (26,RSA) none RSA 06 Nov Pietermaritzburg n/a 2:32:08 Johannes Coleman (27,RSA) none RSA ?? Nov Durban 11 Durban Athletic Club 2:44:55 Johannes Coleman (27,RSA) none Russia RUS 14 Aug Moscow Soviet Championship 2:48:26.2 Nikolay Babarikin (RUS) none Slovenia SLO 04 Jul Ljubljana Yugoslav Championship 3:20:12.4 Slavo Tavcar (SLO) none Switzerland SUI 24 Oct Zurich 16+0 Swiss Championship 2:40:25 Fritz Rutschmann (SUI) none Slovakia SVK 29 Aug Bratislava 5 9+0 Czechoslovak Championship 2:52:32.4 Jan Takac (28,CZE) none SVK 28 Oct Kosice 14 30+0 Kosice 2:43:41.7 Desire Leriche (34,FRA) none Sweden SWE 01 Aug Halmstad 9+0 Tjarbybanan 2:34:58.6x Henry Palme (29,SWE) none SWE 05 Sep Solleftea 8+0 Swedish Championship 2:30:38.0x Henry Palme (30,SWE) none United States USA 11 Apr Petaluma CA 3 Petaluma Spartan 2:55:31 Leland Smith (USA) none USA 19 Apr Boston MA 40 Boston 2:33:20x Walter Young (24,PQ/CAN) none USA 31 May Salisbury Beach MA 21+0 n/a 2:50:52.4a Walter Young (24,PQ/CAN) none USA 12 Jun Washington DC 37+0 AAU Championship 2:44:42 Mel Porter (31,NY/USA) none USA 18 Jul Dallas TX 7+0 Pan American Games 2:42:43 Pat Dengis (35,MD/USA) none USA 12 Oct Port Chester NY 13 25+0 Port Chester National 2:33:44.9a Pat Dengis (35,MD/USA) none USA 07 Nov Yonkers NY 13 34+0 Yonkers 2:42:50.2 Pat Dengis (35,MD/USA) none Wales WAL 10 Jul Ammanford Welsh Championship 3:03:45.8 Isaac O'Brien (32,WAL) noneLast Updated on 07 Jan 2016