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
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