Marathon List for 1957
Albania ALB 28 Sep Tirana Albanian Championship 3:07:07.5 Hasan Dinia (ALB) none Argentina ARG 24 Aug Buenos Aires Lacoste-Luisi 2:39:39 Armando Belivet (ARG) none Australia AUS 17 Aug Melbourne 5 Victorian Marathon Club 2:48:47 Ernest Bentley (AUS) none AUS 14 Sep Adelaide South Australia Championship 3:20:22 George Venables (AUS) none AUS 21 Sep Manly New South Wales Championship 2:32:20 John Russell (25,AUS) none AUS 21 Sep Melbourne 18 4+0 Victoria Championship 2:45:12 William Baillie (23,NZL) none Austria AUT 01 Sep Linz Austrian Championship 2:27:35 Jaroslav Sourek (29,CZE) none Belgium BEL 28 Jul Brussels Belgian Championships 2:26:36.4 Aurele Vandendriessche (25,BEL) none Bulgaria BUL ?? ??? n/a Bulgarian Championship 2:38:24 Georgi Penchev (BUL) none Canada CAN 21 Sep Saint John's NF 8 3+0 Newfoundland Provincial Championships 3:05:51 Jim Jackson (NF/CAN) none CAN 12 Oct Saint Hyacinthe PQ 1 Saint Hyacinthe 2:32:47 Gordon Dickson (25,ON/CAN) none Czech Republic CZE 28 Jul Upice 7 Vitezove Ratiborickeho 2:35:07.6 Walter Bednar (31,CZE) none CZE 08 Sep Ostrava 3 Ostravsky 2:34:36.0 Jaroslav Sourek (29,CZE) none Denmark DEN ?? ??? n/a Danish Championship 2:51:53 Arthur Hansen (31,DEN) none England ENG 22 Apr Sheffield 15 56+0 Doncaster to Sheffield 2:27:21.8a Arthur Keily (36,ENG) none ENG 25 May Coventry Midland Counties Championship 2:32:01 Benjamin-Basil Heatley (23,ENG) none ENG 25 May Hull 5 Hull 2:29:54 Arthur Keily (36,ENG) none ENG 25 May Ryde 1 49+0 Isle of Wight 2:35:51 Ken Honney (26,ENG) none ENG 15 Jun Chiswick 44 98+0 Polytechnic 2:37:04.4a Ernest Kirkup (27,ENG) none ENG 10 Aug Watford AAA Championship 2:22:27.8 Ernest Kirkup (28,ENG) none ENG 17 Aug Liverpool 14 Liverpool 2:29:51 Arthur Keily (36,ENG) none Spain ESP 12 May Valencia Spanish Championship 2:39:22 Miguel Navarro (27,ESP) none Estonia EST 14 Jul Tallinn Estonian Championship 2:53:53.4 Viktor Puusepp (30,EST) none EST ?? Sep Vandra 2 Vandra n/a Argadi Birkenfeldt (EST) Finland FIN 16 Jun Vaasa n/a 2:22:07.2 Olavi-Adrian Manninen (40,FIN) none FIN 25 Aug Turku 10 Finnish Championships 2:25:37.8 Eino Oksanen (26,FIN) none France FRA 15 Sep Colombes French Championship 2:30:04 Henri Chene (FRA) none Germany GER 30 Jun Leipzig East German Championship 2:43:04 Bruno Bartholome (29,GER) none GER 17 Aug Dusseldorf 71+0 West German Championship 2:31:08.8 Gustav Disse (23,GER) none GER 30 Aug Jena n/a 2:31:07.2 Viktor Olsen (33,NOR) none GER 29 Sep Wernigerode n/a 2:34:51 Gerhard Heber (33,GER) none Greece GRE 12 May Athens Greek Championship 3:00:01 Ioannis Glezos (GRE) none GRE 01 Sep Athens 17 Balkan Games 2:41:37.0 Franjo Skrinjar (37,CRO) none GRE 06 Oct Athens 2 20+0 Athens International 2:26:27.8a Franjo Mihalic (37,SER) none Hungary HUN 16 Jun Szeged 1 International Friendship 2:35:13 Franjo Skrinjar (37,CRO) none HUN 01 Sep Budapest Hungarian Championship 2:41:05 Istvan Simon (44,HUN) none India IND 10 Feb Bangalore Indian Championship 2:48:56.1 Pyare Lal (IND) none Ireland IRL ?? Jul n/a Irish Championship (AAU) 2:48:xx Alex Ingle (IRL) none IRL 28 Jul Crumlin All Ireland Championships (NACA) 2:48:07 Dan Lennon (NIR) none IRL 28 Jul Dublin n/a 2:33:19 Hugh McEleney (IRL) none Italy ITA 20 Oct Rome Italian Championship 2:36:29.4 Rino Lavelli (28,ITA) none Japan JPN 10 Feb Beppu 5 20+0 Beppu Mainichi 2:26:40 Nobuyoshi Sadanaga (28,JPN) none JPN 24 Feb Naha 3 Shinpo Naha 2:42:59 Nagahito Ishigaki (JPN) none JPN 21 Mar Nagoya 5 n/a 2:27:54 Akira Hatsuku (JPN) none JPN 24 Mar Marugame 10 Kagawa 3:15:20 Hideaki Nagai (JPN) none JPN 03 May Osaka 12 Mainichi 2:31:26 Kurao Hiroshima (28,JPN) none JPN 10 May Ome 5 Yomiuri Zenkoku 2:30:28 Yoshitaka Uchikawa (26,JPN) none JPN 06 Oct Kobe Japanese Championship 2:28:28 Sumio Horinouchi (JPN) none JPN 01 Dec Fukuoka 11 36+0 Asahi Shimbun 2:21:40 Kurao Hiroshima (28,JPN) none JPN 08 Dec Kochi 12 Kochi Shinbun 2:40:22 Ichiro Murata (JPN) none Korea KOR ?? Mar Taegu Taegu 2:22:55 Chung-Woon Lim (KOR) none KOR ?? ??? n/a Korean Championship 2:31:55 Sam-Suk Song (KOR) none Latvia LAT 21 Jul Riga Latvian Championship 2:37:58.4 Alfreds Grotans (28,LAT) none Netherlands; The NED 17 Aug Enschede 6 Enschede 2:32:39 Piet Bleeker (28,NED) none NED 05 Oct Zaandam Zaanse 2:47:13 Joop Frederiks (NED) none Northern Ireland NIR 29 Jun Belfast 12 All-Ireland Championships (AAU/NIRR) 2:39:58 Vincent Frazer-Walker (IRL) none Norway NOR 11 Aug Valer Norwegian Championship 2:35:08 Viktor Olsen (33,NOR) none New Zealand NZL ?? ??? Napier New Zealand Championship 2:44:56 Edwin Rye (34,NZL) none NZL ?? Dec Feilding 3 Feilding 2:52:10 I Drysdale (NZL) none Poland POL 15 Sep Poznan Polish Championship 2:39:36 Josef Russek (34,POL) none Portugal POR 28 Apr Lisbon Portuguese Championship 2:28:40.6 Jose Araujo (33,POR) none Romania ROM 09 Jun Brasov n/a 2:48:25 Suleiman Ahmed-Ariff (ROM) none ROM 15 Sep Bucharest n/a 2:30:29 Lothar Beckert (26,GER) none South Africa RSA 23 Feb Krugersdorp Southern Transvaal Championship 2:35:15.2 Mercer Davies (32,RSA) none RSA 20 Apr Queenstown South African Championships 2:33:06.8 Jackie Mekler (24,RSA) none RSA 08 Jul Brakpan 2 n/a 2:34:59a Mercer Davies (32,RSA) none RSA 25 Aug Johannesburg 12 Jackie Gibson 2:37:19 Frikkie Steyn (RSA) none Russia RUS 04 Aug Moscow 3 International Youth Games 2:21:23.4 Franjo Mihalic (37,SER) none RUS 01 Sep Moscow Soviet Championships 2:19:50 Sergey Popov (26,RUS) none Scotland SCO 22 Jun Edinburgh Scottish Championship 2:25:44a Henry Fenion (26,GBR) none Switzerland SUI 08 Sep Zurich Swiss Championship 2:46:08.6 Arthur-Karl Wittwer (29,SUI) none Slovakia SVK 30 Jun Cadca 5 Kysucky 2:49:43.0 Walter Bednar (31,CZE) none SVK 13 Oct Kosice 32 62+0 Kosice 2:23:57.8 Ivan Filin (31,RUS) none Sweden SWE 13 Jul Arboga Swedish Championship 2:25:08 John-Evert Nyberg (32,SWE) none SWE 21 Sep Goteborg 10+0 n/a 2:24:04 Paavo Kotila (30,FIN) none United States USA 27 Jan Philadelphia PA 4 Shanahan Catholic Club 2:31:19x Jack Barry (32,PA/USA) none USA ?? Mar Honolulu HI 5 Hawaiian AAU 3:16:02 J Palacat (HI/USA) none USA 07 Apr Petaluma CA 23 Petaluma Spartan 3:07:17 Jesse vanZant (34,USA) none USA 20 Apr Boston MA 60 Boston 2:20:05a John J Kelley (26,CT/USA) none USA 19 May Yonkers NY 33 Yonkers 2:24:55.2x John J Kelley (26,CT/USA) none USA 25 May n/a NJ Riverview Park none none USA 03 Aug Culver City CA 10 Western Hemisphere 2:55:41 Mal Robertson (USA) none USA 09 Aug Manitou Springs CO 2 9+0 Pike's Peak 5:15:53 Monte Wolford (CO/USA) none USA 13 Oct Queens NY Metropolitan AAU Championship 2:38:44.2 Ted Corbitt (38,NY/USA) none Wales WAL 22 Jun Cardiff Welsh Championship 2:33:51 Rhys Davies (33,WAL) noneLast Updated on 07 Jan 2016