Marathon List for 1961


Albania
ALB   ?? ???  Shkoder                                       Albanian Championship                   3:01:39     Musa Peqini (ALB)                           none                            
Australia
AUS   02 Jul  Sydney                                        n/a                                     2:26:44     Keith Ollerenshaw (32,AUS)                  none                            
AUS   27 Jul  Melbourne                      9              Victorian Marathon Club                 2:29:45     Tom Kelly (AUS)                             none                            
AUS   02 Sep  Adelaide                                      South Australia Championship            2:47:40     Alf O'Connor (AUS)                                                          
AUS   02 Sep  Sydney                                        New South Wales Championship            2:43:26     Ian Hassall (AUS)                           none                            
AUS   14 Oct  Mentone                       22      8+0     Victoria Championship                   2:28:51     Tom Kelly (AUS)                             none                            
Austria
AUT   01 Jul  Ganserndorf                                   Austrian Championship                   2:45:40     Adolf Gruber (41,AUT)                       none                            
Belgium
BEL   10 Jun  Laarne                                        Belgian Championships                   2:27:55     Aurele Vandendriessche (28,BEL)             none                            
Brazil
BRA   ?? ???  n/a                                           Brazilian Championship                  2:47:21.7   Waldir doNascimento (BRA)                   none                            
Bulgaria
BUL   ?? ???  n/a                                           Bulgarian Championships                 2:40:17     Georgi Penchev (BUL)                        none                            
Canada
CAN   03 Sep  Saint Hyacinthe PQ             5              Saint Hyacinthe                         2:31:50     John J Kelley (30,CT/USA)                   none                            
CAN   23 Sep  Saint John's NF               11      4+0     Newfoundland Provincial Championships   3:17:00     Jim Jackson (NF/CAN)                        none                            
Czech Republic
CZE   05 Aug  Domazlice                     11              Domazlicky                              2:54:00     Bohumil Weber (CZE)                         none                            
CZE   20 Aug  Upice                         11              Upice                                   2:19:15.8   Vaclav Chudomel (28,CZE)                    none                            
Denmark
DEN   20 Aug  Hillerod                                      Danish Championships                    2:51:02     Werner Johansen (DEN)                       none                            
England
ENG   03 Apr  Sheffield                     19              Doncaster to Sheffield                  2:23:03a    Peter Wilkinson (27,ENG)                    none                            
ENG   29 Apr  Hull                           9              Hull                                    2:28:27     Ken Pawson (30,ENG)                         none                            
ENG   06 May  Nuneaton                                      Midland Counties Championship           2:31:14     Tom Buckingham (43,GBR)                     none                            
ENG   27 May  Ryde                           5     42+0     Isle of Wight                           2:28:42     John Tarrant (29,ENG)                       none                            
ENG   10 Jun  Chiswick                      48    164+0     Polytechnic                             2:20:25a    Peter Wilkinson (27,ENG)                    none                            
ENG   08 Jul  Bristol                              27+0     British RRC Championship                2:27:08     Tony Towl (ENG)                             none                            
ENG   29 Jul  Enfield                                       AAA                                     2:24:37.0   Brian Kilby (23,ENG)                        none                            
ENG   12 Aug  Liverpool                     18              Liverpool                               2:24:22     Ronald Hill (22,ENG)                        none                            
ENG   ?? Sep  Windermere                                    Round the Lake                          2:38:36     John M Kerr (28,SCO)                        none                            
Spain
ESP   13 Aug  Manresa                                       Spanish Championship                    2:34:33     Miguel Navarro (31,ESP)                     none                            
Estonia
EST   29 Sep  Vandra                         6              Estonian Championship                   2:30:54.0   Rein Leinus (29,EST)                        none                            
Finland
FIN   09 Jul  Jyvaskyla                                     Finnish Championships                   2:25:49     Paavo Kotila (33,FIN)                       none                            
FIN   17 Sep  Turku                         14              Turku                                   2:33:58.2   Terho Miettinen (23,FIN)                    none                            
France
FRA   09 Jul  Fontainebleau                                 Six Nations                             2:26:55     Aurele Vandendriessche (29,BEL)             none                            
FRA   17 Sep  Montmelian                                    French Championships                    2:41:01     Paul Geneve (36,FRA)                        none                            
Georgia
GEO   08 Oct  Tbilisi                                       Soviet Championships                    2:24:05.4   Viktor Baykov (26,RUS)                      none                            
Germany
GER   29 Jul  Dusseldorf                                    West German Championship                2:28:27.4   Jurgen Wedeking (26,GER)                    none                            
GER   03 Sep  Meiningen                                     East German Championship                2:30:24     Bruno Bartholome (34,GER)                   none                            
GER   03 Sep  Wernigerode                                   n/a                                     2:24:32     Eugen Fuhrmann (29,GER)                     none                            
GER   01 Oct  Visselhovede                                  n/a                                     2:39:28     Gideon Papke (32,GER)                       none                            
Greece
GRE   07 May  Athens                         4              Athens International                    2:23:44.6a  Abebe Bikila (28,ETH)                       none                            
Hungary
HUN   23 Jul  Szeged                         5              International Friendship                2:23:55.4   Bela Szalay (34,HUN)                        none                            
HUN   02 Sep  Budapest                                      Hungarian Championships                 2:41:17     Zoltan Kovacs (35,HUN)                      none                            
HUN   ?? Oct  Budapest                       1              Csepeli Nemzetkozi                      2:28:21     Jozef Suto (24,HUN)                         none                            
HUN   07 Nov  Budapest                                      n/a                                     2:28:20.2   Sandor Molnar (26,HUN)                      none                            
India
IND   19 Feb  Jalandhar                                     Indian Championship                     2:29:56.2   Chand Nil (32,IND)                          none                            
IND   10 Dec  New Delhi                                     n/a                                     2:45:55.4   Gulzara Singh (49,IND)                      none                            
IND   16 Dec  Lucknow                                       n/a                                     2:26:16     Jagmal Singh (IND)                          none                            
IND   ?? Dec  Secunderabad                                  n/a                                     2:29:06     Akotkar Balkrishnan (24,IND)                none                            
Iran
IRI   11 Oct  Teheran                                       Iranian Championships                   2:45:34     nfn Moslemi (IRI)                           none                            
Ireland
IRL   24 Jul  Fermoy                                        All Ireland Championships (NACA)        2:45:44     Seamus Kearns (IRL)                         none                            
IRL   02 Sep  Finglas                                       Irish Championships (AAU)               2:55:00     Mick Doyle (IRL)                            none                            
Italy
ITA   08 Oct  Novara                                        Italian Champioonship                   2:27:22.8   Francesco Perrone (30,ITA)                  none                            
Japan
JPN   ?? ???  Fukuchiyama                    3              Fukuchiyama                             2:34:55     Yutaka Sumita (JPN)                         none                            
JPN   ?? Jan  Kagoshima                                     n/a                                     2:31:20     Yoshiaki Sasaki (JPN)                       none                            
JPN   05 Feb  Kochi                         15              Kochi Shinbun                           2:40:21     Tadami Minami (JPN)                         none                            
JPN   12 Feb  Beppu                          9     40+0     Beppu Mainichi                          2:23:45     Hiroshi Uwa (JPN)                           none                            
JPN   19 Mar  Nagano                         4              Shinmai                                 2:28:41     Katsuyoshi Ito (JPN)                        none                            
JPN   21 Mar  Nagoya                         9              Chunichi                                2:18:54     Takayuki Nakao (22,JPN)                     none                            
JPN   26 Mar  Utsunomiya                     9              Yomiuri Zenkoku                         2:26:01     Yosuke Ozeki (23,JPN)                       none                            
JPN   ?? Apr  Fukui                          3              n/a                                     2:30:19     Mataichi Nasu (JPN)                         none                            
JPN   15 Apr  Naha                           7              Shinpo Naha                             2:34:36     Hiroshi Uwa (JPN)                           none                            
JPN   ?? ???  n/a                                           Kanto Inter-Collegiate Championshis     2:34:15     Toshihiko Senuma (JPN)                      none                            
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JPN   25 Jun  Osaka                         16       18     Mainichi                                2:29:27     Abebe Bikila (28,ETH)                       none                            
JPN   13 Aug  Sapporo                        4              Hokkai Times                            2:47:56     Yoshiaki Kawashima (27,JPN)                 none                            
JPN   20 Aug  Tamatsukuri                    4              Tamatsukuri Mainichi                    2:46:14     Yutaka Sumita (JPN)                         none                            
JPN   03 Dec  Fukuoka                       15     32+0     Fukuoka                                 2:22:05     Pavel Kantorek (31,CZE)                     none                            
Korea
KOR   28 Sep  Seoul                                         Inchon-Seoul                            2:40:25.2a  Tom Kelly (AUS)                             none                            
KOR   ?? ???  n/a                                           Korean Championship                     2:35:04.6   Jae-Duk Han (KOR)                           none                            
Latvia
LAT   05 Aug  Riga                                          Latvian Championship                    2:38:32.2   Alfreds Grotans (32,LAT)                    none                            
Morrocco
MAR   29 Aug  Casablanca                                    Pan-Arab Games                          2:44:44     Hassan benMohamed (MAR)                     none                            
Myanmar
MYA   15 Feb  Rangoon                                       Burmese Championships                   3:17:19     D Bahadur (IND)                             none                            
Netherlands; The
NED   12 Aug  Enschede                       8              Enschede                                2:24:11.4   Peter Wilkinson (28,ENG)                    none                            
NED   28 Oct  Zaandam                                       n/a                                     2:25:43     Thyge Thorgersen (34,DEN)                   none                            
Northern Ireland
NIR   01 Jul  Belfast                       16              All-Ireland Championships (NIAA/AAU)    2:32:17     Hugh McEleney (IRL)                         none                            
Norway
NOR   02 Aug  Oslo                                          n/a                                     2:26:14     Tenho Salakka (27,FIN)                      none                            
NOR   18 Aug  Bergen                                        Norwegian Championship                  2:31:42     Oddvar Thorsen (35,NOR)                     none                            
New Zealand
NZL   28 Jan  Christchurch                  12              Canterbury Championship                 2:29:25     George Wilson (NZL)                         none                            
NZL   11 Feb  Auckland                       6              Auckland Championship                   2:26:17     Barry Magee (27,NZL)                        none                            
NZL   04 Mar  Christchurch                                  New Zealand Championships               2:18:54.2   Barry Magee (27,NZL)                        none                            
NZL   ?? Nov  Feilding                       7              Feilding                                2:27:30     H Wilson (NZL)                              none                            
NZL   02 Dec  Auckland                       1              Owairaka Lovelock Track                 2:26:01     Ivan Keats (24,NZL)                         none                            
Peru
PER   28 May  Lima                          14              South American Championship             2:39:36     Juan Silva (30,CHI)                         none                            
Poland
POL   25 Aug  Nowa Huta                                     Polish Championship                     2:38:48.4   Albin Czech (27,POL)                        none                            
Portugal
POR   07 May  Lisbon                                        Portuguese Championships                2:37:46     Inacio Ribeiro (POR)                        none                            
Romania
ROM   10 Aug  Bucharest                                     Romanian Championship                   2:34:52     Toma Voicu (ROM)                            none                            
South Africa
RSA   19 Feb  Durban                        28              Durban Athletic Club                    2:36:57.6   Marthinus Wiid (28,RSA)                     none                            
RSA   25 Feb  Krugersdorp                                   Southern Transvaal Championship         2:38:51     Jackie Mekler (28,RSA)                      none                            
RSA   18 Mar  East London                    1              Border Championship                     2:56:01     T Mander (RSA)                              none                            
RSA   ?? Mar  Durban                         1              Savages                                 n/a         Oelof Vorster (25,RSA)                      none                            
RSA   01 Apr  Paarl                                         South African Championship              2:24:37.8   Marthinus Wiid (29,RSA)                     none                            
RSA   10 Jul  Brakpan                        6              Golden Reef                             2:37:32a    Marthinus Wiid (29,RSA)                     none                            
RSA   23 Jul  Durban                                        n/a                                     2:31:28     Oelof Vorster (26,RSA)                      none                            
RSA   08 Oct  Johannesburg                  16              Jackie Gibson                           2:45:39     Frank Pearce (RSA)                          none                            
Russia
RUS   18 Aug  Saint Petersburg                              n/a                                     2:22:56.2   Viktor Baykov (26,RUS)                      none                            
Scotland
SCO   24 Jun  Edinburgh                            11+0     Scottish Championships                  2:30:36a    John M Kerr (27,SCO)                        none                            
SCO   16 Sep  Glasgow                        1              Shettleston Harriers                    2:40:04     Andrew Brown (28,SCO)                       none                            
Serbia
SER   17 Sep  Belgrade                      21              Balkan Games                            2:33:17.4   Franjo Skrinjar (41,CRO)                    none                            
Slovenia
SLO   13 Aug  Ljubljana                                     Yugoslav Championship                   2:29:52.2   Franjo Skrinjar (41,CRO)                    none                            
Switzerland
SUI   15 Oct  Locarno                                       Swiss Championship                      2:33:11     Guido Vogeli (23,SUI)                       none                            
Slovakia
SVK   02 Jul  Cadca                          6              Kysucky                                 2:47:06     Jiri Kohout (36,CZE)                        none                            
SVK   08 Oct  Kosice                        36     88+0     Kosice                                  2:20:12.0   Abebe Bikila (29,ETH)                       none                            
Sweden
SWE   26 Aug  Helsingborg                                   Swedish Championships                   2:18:32x    Erik-Verner Ostbye (40,SWE)                 none                            
United States
USA   19 Feb  Bronx NY                       4     17+0     Cherry Tree                             2:25:27.5   John J Kelley (30,CT/USA)                   none                            
USA   02 Apr  San Francisco CA                     15+0     National Junior AAU Championship        2:37:35.4   Robert Drake (29,CA/USA)                    none                            
USA   19 Apr  Boston MA                     64    115+0     Boston                                  2:23:29a    Eino Oksanen (29,FIN)                       none                            
USA   21 May  Yonkers NY                    37     47+0     Yonkers                                 2:26:53.4   John J Kelley (30,CT/USA)                   none                            
USA   08 Jul  Miles City MT                                 Olympic Development                                 none                                        none                            
USA   13 Aug  Manitou Springs CO             6     12+0     Pike's Peak                             4:07:15     Calvin Hansen (CO/USA)                      none                            
USA   04 Sep  Columbia MO                    2      5+0     Heart of America                        3:09:15     Bill Silverburg (KS/USA)                    none                            
USA   16 Sep  Olympia WA                     3              n/a                                     2:56:10t    Earl Ellis (26,WA/USA)                      none                            
USA   01 Oct  Atlantic City NJ               2              Road Runners Club                       2:49:40     Alex Breckenridge (29,PA/USA)               none                            
USA   09 Dec  Culver City CA                14              Western Hemisphere                      2:26:19x    William Peck (26,CA/USA)                    none                            
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Wales
WAL   24 Jun  Cardiff                                       Welsh Championship                      2:31:40     Ron Franklin (33,WAL)                       none                            
Zimbabwe
ZIM   ?? Jul  Salisbury                                     Rhodesia and Nyasaland Championships    3:16:58.5   nfn Haynes (ZIM)                            none                            

Last Updated on 07 Jan 2016