Marathon List for 1946
Australia AUS 15 Jun Sydney New South Wales Championship 2:45:08 Douglas Dickings (22,AUS) none AUS 21 Sep Melbourne 8 Victoria Championship 2:47:10 Douglas Dickings (23,AUS) none Canada CAN 09 Jun Montreal PQ n/a 2:42:21 Johnny A Kelley (38,MA/USA) none CAN 29 Aug Quebec City PQ Canadian Championship 3:01:00 Gerard Cote (33,PQ/CAN) none CAN 15 Sep Quebec City PQ n/a 2:59:50 Albert Morton (31,ON/CAN) none Denmark DEN 03 Jun Helsingor Danish Championship 2:44:24.2 Henning Larsen (35,DEN) none England ENG 23 Apr Sheffield 4 Doncaster to Sheffield 2:50:16.2a Horace Oliver (31,WAL) none ENG 15 Jun Chiswick 33 Polytechnic 2:38:12a Horace Oliver (31,WAL) none ENG 06 Jul Wolverhampton Midland Counties Championship 2:46:34 Jack Holden (39,ENG) none ENG 20 Jul White City English (AAA) Championship 2:43:14.4 Squire Stevens Yarrow (40,ENG) none Spain ESP 07 Apr Algemesi Spanish Championship 2:47:51.4 Pedro Gomez (21,ESP) none Finland FIN 21 Jul Vuoksenniska Finnish Championship 2:31:37 Mikko Hietanen (34,FIN) none FIN 21 Aug Helsinki n/a 2:31:39 Mikko Hietanen (34,FIN) none FIN 29 Sep Helsinki n/a 2:39:59.8 Enver Bedredin (31,FIN) none France FRA 21 Jul Colombes 8+0 French Championship 2:41:17 Pierre Cousin (33,FRA) none Hungary HUN 06 Oct Szeged Hungarian Championship 2:52:40 Andras Csaplar (33,HUN) none India IND 08 Feb Bangalore Indian Championship 2:58:11.5 Chhota Singh (IND) none Ireland IRL 24 Jun Dublin All-Ireland Champions (AAU/NIRR) 3:13:48 John Henning (37,NIR) none IRL 04 Aug Dundalk All-Ireland (NACA) Championship 3:10:55 A Harrington (IRL) none Italy ITA 01 Sep Modena Italian Championship 3:00:34 Stefano Natale (43,ITA) none ITA 27 Oct Rome n/a 2:32:06x Ettore Padovani (37,ITA) none Japan JPN 10 Feb Osaka 1 Mainichi 2:44:57 Shinzo Koga (JPN) none JPN 10 Nov Kochi 1 Kochi Shinbun 3:28:xx Takeshi Yano (JPN) none Korea KOR 14 Oct Seoul Korean Championship 2:39:40 Yoon-Bok Soo (23,KOR) none Northern Ireland NIR 03 Aug Belfast 1 Northern Ireland Championship 2:46:15 John Henning (37,NIR) none Norway NOR 22 Aug Oslo 3 14+0 European Championships 2:24:55x Mikko Hietanen (34,FIN) none NOR ?? ??? n/a n/a 2:58:50 John Systad (34,NOR) none New Zealand NZL 02 Mar Wanganui New Zealand Championship 2:40:00 Lionel Fox (NZL) none Poland POL 29 Sep Lodz Polish Championship 3:11:34 Stanislaw Przybylko (46,POL) none Portugal POR 05 May Lisbon n/a 2:42:29 Manuel Goncalves (POR) none Romania ROM 03 Nov Bucharest Romanian Championship 3:00:27 Ion Baboie (32,ROM) none South Africa RSA 20 Apr Kimberley South African Championship 2:39:02 Wally Hayward (37,RSA) none RSA ?? Aug Johannesburg 1 Jackie Gibson 2:43:52 Wally Hayward (38,RSA) none RSA ?? Nov Durban 14 Durban Athletic Club 2:59:31 Hardy Ballington (34,RSA) none Scotland SCO 08 Jun Edinburgh Scottish Championship 2:45:39a Donald McNab Robertson (40,SCO) none Switzerland SUI 08 Sep Zurich Swiss Championship 2:45:47.6 Kaspar Schiesser (30,SUI) none Slovakia SVK 28 Oct Kosice 21 74+0 Kosice 2:35:02.4 Mikko Hietanen (35,FIN) none Sweden SWE 14 Jul Selanger 17+0 Swedish Championship 2:26:48.8x Erik Jonsson (26,SWE) none SWE 21 Sep Halmstad 7+0 n/a 2:40:08x Sven Hakansson (36,SWE) none Turkey TUR 06 Oct Istanbul Turkish Championship 2:44:53.5 Sevki Koru (33,TUR) none Ukraine UKR 22 Sep Dnyepropetrovsk Soviet Championship 2:49:53.8 Yakov Punko (30,RUS) none United States USA 26 Mar Petaluma CA 12 Petaluma Spartan 2:48:25 Fred Kline (31,USA) none USA 20 Apr Boston MA 49 33+0 Boston 2:29:27x Stylianos Kyriakides (35,GRE) none USA 27 Oct Yonkers NY 22 29+0 Yonkers 2:47:53.6 Gerard Cote (33,PQ/CAN) noneLast Updated on 07 Jan 2016