Marathon List for 1952
Albania ALB ?? Sep Tirana Albanian Championship 2:57:00 Andrea Berberi (ALB) none Australia AUS 16 Feb Melbourne 1+0 Australian Championship 3:19:26 Robert Prentice (34,AUS) none AUS 20 Sep Sydney New South Wales Championship 2:45:43 Robert Prentice (35,AUS) none AUS 18 Oct North Carlton 13 5+0 Victoria Championship 2:44:38.4 Robert Prentice (35,AUS) none Austria AUT 28 Jun Vienna Austrian Championship 2:51:09.6 Adolf Gruber (32,AUT) none Canada CAN 03 May Oshawa ON 15+0 Canadian Olympic Trials 2:45:02.2 Paul Albert Collins (25,CAN) none CAN 13 Oct Saint John's NF 3 4+0 Newfoundland Provincial Championships 2:59:14 George Hillier (22,NF/CAN) none Croatia CRO 08 Jun Zagreb n/a 2:38:10 Franjo Krajcar (37,SER) none Czech Republic CZE 18 May Bystrice n/a 2:39:50.0 Jaroslav Strupp (35,CZE) none CZE 01 Jun Prague n/a 2:44:54.4 Jindrich Novak (33,CZE) none CZE 29 Jun Pardubice Czechoslovak Championship 2:37:51.6 Jaroslav Sourek (24,CZE) none CZE 07 Sep Domazlice 5 Domazlicky 2:38:54 Walter Bednar (26,CZE) none CZE 26 Oct Upice 3 Ratiboricky 2:37:19.4 Jaroslav Strupp (36,CZE) 4:35:00 Miroslava Binova (CZE) Denmark DEN 15 Jun Aarhus Danish Championship 2:42:17.2 Svend Erik-Olaf Sorensen (34,DE none England ENG 14 Apr Sheffield 10 Doncaster-Sheffield 2:41:24a Charles William Ellick (33,ENG) none ENG 17 May Cannock Midland Counties Championship 2:59:09 Sidney Prestidge (34,ENG) none ENG 02 Jun Peterborough Brotherhoods 2:38:xx Charles William Ellick (33,ENG) none ENG 14 Jun Chiswick 39 126+0 Polytechnic 2:20:42.2a James-Henry Peters (33,ENG) none ENG 11 Aug Liverpool 9 Liverpool 2:32:39 William McMinnis (36,ENG) none Estonia EST 12 Oct Tapa 5+0 Estonian Championship 2:38:50.8 Arnold Vaabla (28,EST) none Finland FIN 22 Jun Helsinki Finnish Championships 2:29:02 Erkki Puolakka (27,FIN) none FIN 27 Jul Helsinki 13 53+0 Olympic Games 2:23:03.2 Emil Zatopek (29,CZE) none FIN 28 Sep Saynatsalo n/a 2:42:50 Veikko Simukka (25,FIN) none FIN 05 Oct Turku 5 Turku 2:25:19.2 Veikko Karvonen (26,FIN) none France FRA 29 Jun Colombes 12+0 French Championship 2:44:02.6 Lionel Billas (23,FRA) none Germany GER 08 Jun Neustadt West German Championship 2:32:57.0x Ludwig Warnemunde (35,GER) none GER 20 Jul Potsdam n/a 2:32:00 Arthur Frisch (37,GER) none GER 21 Sep Berlin n/a 2:42:39 Hans Vollbach (31,GER) none GER 21 Sep Tegernsee n/a 2:42:27 Alois Wagner (30,AUT) none GER 12 Oct Leverkusen n/a 2:44:10 Gunter Rodowski (25,GER) none Greece GRE 04 May Athens Greek Championship 3:11:29.6 Dimitrios Dervenis (GRE) none Guatemala GUA 05 Apr Guatemala City n/a 2:30:18 Doroteo Flores (GUA) none Hungary HUN 31 May Budapest n/a 2:32:37.8 Jozef Dobronyi (34,HUN) none India IND 23 Feb Chennai n/a 2:54:29 Surat Singh (29,IND) none Ireland IRL 05 Jul Crumlin All Ireland Championships (NACA) 3:13:50 J Exley (IRL) none IRL 15 Jul Dublin All-Ireland Championships (NIAA/AAU) 2:45:00 Joseph West (27,IRL) none Italy ITA 06 Oct Mestre n/a 2:37:30 Egilberto Martufi (26,ITA) none Japan JPN 16 Feb Ube Seibu 2:29:37 Keizo Yamada (24,JPN) none JPN 17 Feb Yamaguchi 2 Seibu 2:29:37 Keizo Yamada (24,JPN) none JPN 09 Mar Marugame 6 Kagawa 2:37:27 Giichi Noda (JPN) none JPN 23 Mar Tokyo Tokyo 2:29:45 Keizo Yamada (24,JPN) none JPN 04 May Osaka 7 Mainichi 2:29:56 Yoshitaka Uchikawa (21,JPN) none JPN 05 Oct Gifu Japanese Championships 2:47:41 Hiroshi Hiroshima (JPN) none JPN 07 Dec Kochi 7 Kochi Shinbun 2:39:26 Ichiro Murata (JPN) none JPN 07 Dec Ube 6 Asahi Shimbun 2:27:59 Katsuo Nishida (23,JPN) none Korea KOR 16 Mar Pusan Korean Olympic Trials 2:26:07 Yoon-Chil Choi (23,KOR) none Latvia LAT ?? Sep Riga Latvian Championship 2:57:46.6 Konstantins Romanovskis (LAT) none Mexico MEX ?? Jun Chihuahua Mexican Championship 3:01:28.6 Francisco Vega (MEX) none Netherlands; The NED 14 Sep Hilversum n/a 2:39:37 Janus vanderZande (27,NED) none Northern Ireland NIR ?? ??? Belfast 7 Belfast n/a John Henning (43,NIR) none Norway NOR 03 Jul Oslo n/a 2:35:54 John Systad (39,NOR) none New Zealand NZL 26 Jan Christchurch 3 Canterbury Championship 2:44:45 Melvin Munro (NZL) none NZL 01 Mar Wanganui n/a 2:38:42 John R Clarke (NZL) none Poland POL 28 Sep Poznan Polish Championship 2:52:27.2 Edwin Kozera (28,POL) none Romania ROM 22 Sep Bucharest Romanian Championship 2:35:37.2 Cristea Dinu (41,ROM) none South Africa RSA 28 Mar Cape Town South African Championships 2:37:00.5 Wally Hayward (43,RSA) none RSA ?? Aug Johannesburg 7 7+0 Jackie Gibson 2:44:30 George Burdett (RSA) none RSA ?? ??? Durban Natal Championship 2:44:49 Trevor Allen (RSA) none RSA 11 Oct Benoni Southern Transvaal Championship 2:42:56.5 Jackie Mekler (20,RSA) none RSA 09 Nov Durban 20 5+0 Durban Athletic Club 2:48:30 Jackie Mekler (20,RSA) none Russia RUS 25 Aug Moscow 100+0 Soviet Championship 2:23:59 Vasiliy Davidov (42,UKR) none Scotland SCO 09 Aug Dundee 3 Perth-Dundee 2:38:07a Charles D Robertson (32,SCO) none Switzerland SUI 25 May Prattein Swiss Championship 2:38:48 Hans Frischknecht (29,SUI) none Slovakia SVK 05 Oct Kosice 27 64+0 Kosice 2:29:10.0 Erkki Puolakka (27,FIN) none Sweden SWE 15 Jun Sodertalje Swedish Championship 2:29:02 Gustaf-Nils Jansson (30,SWE) none Turkey TUR 13 Apr Istanbul Turkish Championship 2:44:13.4 Ahmet Aytar (29,TUR) none United States USA 06 Apr Petaluma CA 18 Petaluma Spartan 2:48:10 Joseph Brooks (24,USA) none USA 19 Apr Boston MA 55 Boston 2:31:53x Doroteo Flores (GUA) none USA 10 May Fresno CA West Coast Relays 3:01:01.2 Aldo Scandurra (36,NY/USA) none USA 18 May Yonkers NY 28 Yonkers 2:38:24.4 Victor Dyrgall (34,USA) none USA 16 Jun Culver City CA 5 n/a 2:50:37 Joseph Brooks (24,USA) none USA 19 Oct Baltimore MD Baltimore none none Wales WAL 12 Jul Port Talbot n/a 2:30:40.6 Thomas Richards (42,WAL) noneLast Updated on 07 Jan 2016