Marathon List for 1947
Australia AUS 23 Aug Sydney New South Wales Championship 2:36:30 Roland Guy (28,AUS) none AUS 20 Sep Melbourne 9 Victoria Championship 2:37:21 Gordon Stanley (28,AUS) none Belarus BLR ?? ??? Minsk n/a 3:11:57 Aleksandr Kreshchanovich (BLR) none Canada CAN 14 Jun Toronto ON Canadian Championship 2:45:51 Albert Morton (32,ON/CAN) none CAN 02 Aug Guelph ON n/a 3:10:33 Albert Morton (32,ON/CAN) none CAN 14 Sep Quebec PQ 11+0 n/a 2:48:32.2 Gerard Cote (34,PQ/CAN) none CAN 28 Sep Montreal PQ 14+0 n/a 2:42:40 Lloyd Evans (32,PQ/CAN) none Czech Republic CZE 05 Oct Prague n/a 2:37:36x Vaclav Weishautel (34,CZE) none Denmark DEN 16 Aug Kobenhavn Danish Championship 2:51:18.0 Henning Larsen (36,DEN) none England ENG 08 Apr Sheffield 5 Doncaster to Sheffield 2:41:55.8a Jack Holden (40,ENG) none ENG 03 May Manchester 13 Manchester Evening Chronicle 2:45:37 John Henning (38,NIR) none ENG 14 Jun Chiswick 34 Polytechnic 2:36:52.4a Cecil Ballard (36,ENG) none ENG 05 Jul Dudley Midland Counties Championship 2:53:26 Jack Holden (40,ENG) none ENG 12 Jul Rugby n/a 2:43:03.4 Thomas Richards (37,WAL) none ENG 23 Aug Loughborough n/a 2:33:20.2 Jack Holden (40,ENG) none Spain ESP 27 Apr Algemesi Spanish Championship 2:58:07 Manuel Sanchez (ESP) none Estonia EST 28 Sep Tallinn Estonian Championship 3:08:03.0 Loit Laidna (EST) none Finland FIN 10 Aug Riihimaki n/a 2:35:26.2 Mikko Hietanen (35,FIN) none FIN 28 Sep Seinajoki n/a 2:39:10 Paavo Laine (40,FIN) none FIN 05 Oct Helsinki n/a 2:34:52 Risto Vesterlund (32,FIN) none France FRA 03 Aug Colombes 8+0 French Championship 2:58:47 Pierre Cousin (34,FRA) none Greece GRE 05 Oct Athens East Mediterranean Games 2:52:15a Sevki Koru (34,TUR) none Hungary HUN 05 Oct Szeged n/a 2:41:14.6 Jozsef Kiss (38,HUN) none Ireland IRL 28 Jun Belfast All-Ireland Champions (AAU/NIRR) 2:44:57 John Henning (38,NIR) none IRL 02 Aug Dundalk All-Ireland (NACA) Championship 3:04:47 Charles Browne (IRL) none Italy ITA 14 Sep Naples Italian Championship 2:48:12 Salvatore Costantino (28,ITA) none ITA 26 Oct Rome n/a 2:29:51.0x Salvatore Costantino (28,ITA) none Japan JPN 09 Mar Marugame 1 Kagawa 2:47:30 Toshio Fuke (JPN) none JPN 18 May Osaka 2 Mainichi 2:43:17 Shinzo Koga (JPN) none JPN 05 Oct Tobata n/a 2:41:17 Shinzo Koga (JPN) none JPN 02 Nov Kanazawa 2 Japanese National Games 2:36:33 Shinzo Koga (JPN) none JPN 30 Nov Kochi 2 Kochi Shinbun 3:03:05 Mitsuito Kashiwai (JPN) none JPN 07 Dec Kumamoto 1 23+0 n/a 2:45:46 Toshikazu Wada (JPN) none Korea KOR 09 Aug Chunchon 1 Chosunilbo Chunchon 2:57:20 Jong-Oh Hong (KOR) none KOR 18 Oct n/a n/a 2:34:47 Yoon-Chil Choi (19,KOR) none Latvia LAT 22 Sep Riga Latvian Championship 2:56:49 Alfreds Zvejnieks (LAT) none Netherlands; The NED 12 Jul Enschede 1 Enschede 2:44:13 Eero Riikonen (36,FIN) none Northern Ireland NIR 07 Jun Belfast 2 Belfast 2:39:51 John Henning (38,NIR) none New Zealand NZL ?? ??? Auckland n/a 2:58:54 George Bromley (NZL) none Poland POL 21 Sep Olsztyn Polish Championship 2:52:27.2 Stanislaw Gluszcz (40,POL) none Portugal POR 04 May n/a n/a 2:40:14.4 Manuel Goncalves (POR) none Romania ROM 28 Sep Bucharest Romanian Championship 2:56:05 Ion Baboie (33,ROM) none South Africa RSA ?? Aug Johannesburg 2 Jackie Gibson 2:47:04 Johannes Coleman (37,RSA) none RSA ?? Nov Durban 15 Durban Athletic Club 2:39:27 Sidney Luyt (21,RSA) none Russia RUS 20 Jul Moscow n/a 2:37:00 Vasiliy Gordiyenko (33,UKR) none Scotland SCO 05 Jul Edinburgh Scottish Championship 2:37:49 Donald McNab Robertson (41,SCO) none Switzerland SUI 14 Sep Winterthur Swiss Championship 2:52:00 Hans Frischknecht (24,SUI) none Slovakia SVK 28 Oct Kosice 22 75+0 Kosice 2:36:06.0 Charles Heirendt (36,LUX) none Sweden SWE 06 Jul Stockholm n/a 2:10:55x Gustav Ostling (32,SWE) none SWE 07 Sep Stockholm 7+0 n/a 2:30:58 Mikko Hietanen (35,FIN) none Turkey TUR 13 Apr Istanbul n/a 2:34:29.4 Mustafa Kaplan (25,TUR) none United States USA 13 Apr Petaluma CA 13 Petaluma Spartan 3:27:45 John Dicke (USA) none USA 19 Apr Boston MA 50 41+0 Boston 2:25:39x Yoon-Bok Soo (24,KOR) none USA 26 Oct Yonkers NY 23 29+0 Yonkers 2:40:11 Ted Vogel (22,USA) none Zimbabwe ZIM 05 Apr Bulawayo n/a 2:57:41 Carl Pace (28,RSA) noneLast Updated on 07 Jan 2016