Marathon List for 1956
Albania
ALB ?? Sep Tirana Albanian Championship 2:58:16.8 Hasan Dinia (ALB) none
Argentina
ARG 12 Aug Buenos Aires Lacoste-Luisi 2:31:28 Armando Belivet (ARG) none
Australia
AUS 16 Jun Melbourne 17 Victoria Championship 2:34:52.2 Les Perry (33,AUS) none
AUS 23 Jul Melbourne 4 Victorian Marathon Club 2:36:52 Michael Skinner (30,AUS) none
AUS 04 Aug Sydney New South Wales Championship 2:22:12 Keith Ollerenshaw (27,AUS) none
AUS 08 Sep Melbourne 12+0 Australian Championship 2:26:37.8 John Russell (24,AUS) none
AUS 29 Sep Adelaide South Australia Championship 2:50:39 George Venables (AUS) none
AUS 01 Dec Melbourne 14 33+0 Olympic Games 2:25:00 Alain Mimoun (35,FRA) none
Austria
AUT 30 May Vienna n/a 2:25:18 Adolf Gruber (36,AUT) none
AUT 26 Aug Vienna Austrian Championship 2:28:09.6 Adolf Gruber (36,AUT) none
Belgium
BEL 25 Aug Sint Martens-Latem Belgian Championships 2:25:51.2 Aurele Vandendriessche (24,BEL) none
Bulgaria
BUL 21 Oct Sofia Bulgarian Championship 2:35:14.4 Nikolay Solovyov (BUL) none
Canada
CAN 01 Jul Vancouver BC 1 British Columbia Championship 2:45:50 Adrien Vali (BC/CAN) none
CAN 29 Sep Hamilton ON Canadian Championship 2:36:05 George Hillier (26,NF/CAN) none
CAN 08 Oct Saint John's NF 7 6+0 Newfoundland Provincial Championships 2:53:10 Jim Jackson (NF/CAN) none
Chile
CHI 30 Jul Santiago n/a 2:28:31 Juan Silva (26,CHI) none
Czech Republic
CZE 27 May Bystrice pod Hostynem n/a 2:31:29 Jaroslav Sourek (28,CZE) none
CZE 17 Jun Prague Kladno-Prague 2:30:19.4 Pavel Kantorek (26,CZE) none
CZE 22 Jul Domazlice 8 Domazlicky 2:48:05 Walter Bednar (30,CZE) none
CZE 26 Aug Pardubice Czechoslovakia Championships 2:29:36.8 Pavel Kantorek (26,CZE) none
Denmark
DEN 14 Jul Aarhus Danish Championship 2:36:44 Johannes Lauridsen (25,DEN) none
England
ENG 07 Apr Sheffield 14 56+0 Doncaster to Sheffield 2:33:19.4a Eric Losthouse (34,ENG) none
ENG 21 Apr Hull 4 Hull 2:30:31 Eric Losthouse (34,ENG) none
ENG 21 May Peterborough n/a 2:31:35 Eric Losthouse (34,ENG) none
ENG 02 Jun Leicester Midland Counties Championship 2:36:55.2 Benjamin-Basil Heatley (22,ENG) none
ENG 16 Jun Chiswick 43 136+0 Polytechnic 2:20:15.8a Ronald Clark (25,ENG) none
ENG 28 Jul Port Sunlight AAA Championship 2:26:15.0 Harold Hicks (30,ENG) none
ENG 11 Aug Liverpool 13 Liverpool 2:34:01 Arthur Keily (35,ENG) none
Spain
ESP 29 Apr Zaragoza Spanish Championship 2:37:17.6 Pedro Sierra (30,ESP) none
Estonia
EST ?? Sep Vandra 1 Vandra 2:28:25 Enno Juhansoo (EST) 4:11:36 Marike Tohv (EST)
Finland
FIN 17 Jun Vaasa n/a 2:21:17.8 Olavi-Adrian Manninen (39,FIN) none
FIN 12 Aug Pieksamaki Finnish Championships 2:18:04.8 Paavo Kotila (29,FIN) none
France
FRA 05 Aug Colombes 12+0 French Championships 2:29:28.8 Mohamed Maguini (23,FRA) none
Germany
GER 15 Apr Wittlich n/a 2:32:09 August Blumensaat (45,GER) none
GER 17 Jun Bad Nenndorf n/a 2:31:15.8 Hans Vollbach (34,GER) none
GER 23 Jun Bernau n/a 2:28:55.0 Siegfried Meyer (30,GER) none
GER 03 Aug Leipzig n/a 2:34:55.4 Karl Graber (29,GER) none
GER 18 Aug Berlin West German Championships 2:32:23.2 Gustav Disse (22,GER) none
GER 02 Sep Demmin 31+0 East German Championship 2:33:15 Siegfried Meyer (30,GER) none
GER 08 Sep Chemnitz n/a 2:26:49.8 Kurt Hartung (31,GER) none
GER 22 Sep Hamburg n/a 2:23:11 Eino Oksanen (25,FIN) none
GER 28 Oct Koln n/a 2:34:08 August Blumensaat (45,GER) none
GER 28 Oct Templin n/a 2:28:31.2 Gerhard Heber (32,GER) none
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Greece
GRE 29 Apr Athens Greek Championship 3:10:18a Ioannis Hasomeris (GRE) none
GRE 07 Oct Athens Inter-clubs Competition 3:00:36a Kostas Theodorakis (GRE) none
Hungary
HUN 15 Jul Budapest Hungarian Championships 2:35:36 Jozef Dobronyi (39,HUN) none
India
IND ?? Feb Patiala Indian Championship 2:38:57.4 Ran Bahadur (IND) none
IND 07 Feb Gwalior n/a 2:27:17.4 Chhota Singh (IND) none
IND 10 Mar New Delhi n/a 2:32:37.2 Gurucharan Singh (IND) none
Iran
IRI ?? Nov Teheran n/a 2:20:11x Ali Baghban (32,IRI) none
Ireland
IRL 23 Jun Dublin All-Ireland Championships 2:42:07 Robert Crossan (32,NIR) none
IRL 29 Jul Crumlin All Ireland Championships (NACA) 2:41:10 Patsy McCabe (NIR) none
Italy
ITA 07 Oct Rome Italian Championship 2:38:15 Rino Lavelli (27,ITA) none
Japan
JPN 12 Feb Beppu 4 25+0 Beppu Mainichi 2:26:24 Kurao Hiroshima (27,JPN) none
JPN 26 Feb Naha 2 Shinpo Naha 3:39:19 Takeshi Niigaki (JPN) none
JPN 17 Mar Ome 4 Yomiuri Zenkoku 2:29:45 Keizo Yamada (28,JPN) none
JPN 18 Mar Marugame 9 Kagawa 2:54:56 Matsuichi Murakami (JPN) none
JPN 21 Mar Nagoya 4 n/a 2:29:31 Akira Hatsuku (JPN) none
JPN 06 May Osaka 11 Mainichi 2:27:45 Yoshiaki Kawashima (21,JPN) none
JPN 20 May Tokyo Kanto Inter-Collegiate Games 2:36:00.6 Yoshitaka Uchikawa (25,JPN) none
JPN 07 Oct Sendai Japanese Championships 2:33:12 Keizo Yamada (28,JPN) none
JPN 09 Dec Nagoya 10 20+0 Asahi Shimbun 2:25:15 Keizo Yamada (29,JPN) none
JPN 16 Dec Kochi 11 Kochi Shinbun 2:39:43 Tadami Minami (JPN) none
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Korea
KOR ?? ??? n/a Korean Championship 2:29:26.8 Chung-Sik Kim (KOR) none
Latvia
LAT 21 Jun Riga Latvian Championship 2:42:51 Alfreds Grotans (26,LAT) none
Mexico
MEX ?? May Monterrey Mexican Championship 2:44:54 Pedro Peralta (MEX) none
Netherlands; The
NED 07 Jul Amsterdam Dutch Championship 2:42:35 Piet Bleeker (27,NED) none
Northern Ireland
NIR ?? ??? Belfast 11 Northern Ireland Championship 2:38:31 Robert Crossan (32,NIR) none
Norway
NOR 07 Oct Sandvika Norwegian Championship 2:31:40 Viktor Olsen (32,NOR) none
New Zealand
NZL ?? Jan Invercargill 5 1+0 Southland 2:43:55a Derek Turnbull (29,NZL) none
NZL 28 Jan Wellington n/a 2:42:31 Ralph King (NZL) none
NZL 18 Feb Auckland 1 Auckland Championship 2:33:25 Ross Rawnsley (NZL) none
NZL 17 Mar Christchurch 7 New Zealand Championship 2:31:46 Albert "Bill" Richards (31,NZL) none
NZL ?? Dec Feilding 2 Feilding 2:41:09 H Wilson (NZL) none
Pakistan
PAK ?? ??? Rawalpindi n/a 2:31:29 Muhammad Aslam (PAK) none
Poland
POL ?? Jun Warsaw Janusz Kusocinski Memorial 2:36:06 Josef Russek (33,POL) none
POL 23 Sep Ostrow Wielkopolski Polish Championship 2:42:10.2 Benedykt Gugala (31,POL) none
Romania
ROM 15 Sep Bucharest Romanian Championship 2:30:20.2 Kurt Hartung (31,GER) none
South Africa
RSA 31 Mar Bloemfontein South African Championship 2:37:36 Johannes Barnard (26,RSA) none
RSA ?? Aug Johannesburg 11 Jackie Gibson 2:35:27 Mercer Davies (31,RSA) none
RSA 06 Oct Port Elizabeth n/a 2:21:37.2 Johannes Barnard (26,RSA) none
RSA ?? ??? Durban 24 Durban Athletic Club 2:39:50 Trevor Gee (RSA) none
Russia
RUS 12 Aug Moscow Soviet Championships 2:20:05.2 Ivan Filin (30,RUS) none
Scotland
SCO 24 Jun Edinburgh Scottish Championship 2:33:36a Joe McGhee (26,SCO) none
SCO 10 Oct Edinburgh n/a 2:25:44 Henry Fenion (26,GBR) none
Serbia
SER 22 Jul Belgrade 16 Balkan Games 2:16:25.0x Franjo Mihalic (36,SER) none
Switzerland
SUI 02 Sep Schaffhausen Swiss Championship 2:54:33.6 Hans Studer (SUI) none
Slovakia
SVK 08 Jul Cadca 4 Kysucky 2:27:52.8 Pavel Kantorek (26,CZE) none
SVK 07 Oct Kosice 31 72+0 Kosice 2:22:05.4 Thomas-Hilt Nilsson (30,SWE) none
Sweden
SWE 16 Sep Linkoping Swedish Championship 2:28:44 Thomas-Hilt Nilsson (30,SWE) none
United States
USA 29 Jan Philadelphia PA 3 Shanahan Catholic Club 2:36:09x Jack Barry (31,PA/USA) none
USA ?? Mar Honolulu HI 4 Hawaiian AAU 3:16:04 Norman Tamanaha (48,HI/USA) none
USA 08 Apr Petaluma CA 22 Petaluma Spartan 3:11:50 Jesse vanZant (33,USA) none
USA 19 Apr Boston MA 59 Boston 2:14:14x Antti Viskari (27,FIN) none
USA 19 May Philadelphia PA (track) none none
USA 21 Jul Culver City CA 9 Western Hemisphere 2:40:49 Michael G Allen (21,CA/USA) none
USA 10 Aug Manitou Springs CO 1 4+0 Pike's Peak 5:39:58 Monte Wolford (CO/USA) none
USA 30 Sep Yonkers NY 32 Yonkers 2:24:52.2x John J Kelley (25,CT/USA) none
USA 12 Oct Port Chester NY n/a 2:26:09 Rudolfo Mendez (25,PUR) none
USA 13 Oct Port Chester NY Port Chester none none
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USA 09 Dec Queens NY National Junior none none
Wales
WAL 23 Jun Cardiff Welsh Championship 2:44:06 Thomas Richards (46,WAL) none
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