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Top Ten London Marathon Winners

The Flora London Marathon is one of the world’s great mass-participation events, and also invariably attracts the best marathoners in the world. This year is Olympic year, so one or two of the world’s best will stay away to focus on Beijing, but we don’t anticipate that the race will suffer in quality for all that. But who are the best winners of this great marathon? Five women, then five men.

  1. Paula Radcliffe (UK). The world record, 2:15.25, course record, the three fastest course times.
  2. Ingrid Kristiansen (Norway). Four wins, and a course record, 2:21.06, that stood for 17 years.
  3. Grete Waitz (Norway). Two wins, and only the great Ingrid K ran faster until 1999.
  4. Katrin Dörre (Germany). Three wins on the bounce, 1992-94.
  5. Joyce Chepchumba (Kenya). Two good wins.
  1. Steve Jones (UK). His 1985 course record of 2:08.16 stood for 12 years.
  2. Khalid Khannouchi (USA). The only sub-2:06 runner at London, set the world record with 2:05.38.
  3. Dionicio Ceron (Mexico). Three wins on the trot, 1994-96.
  4. Antonio Pinto (Portugal). Three wins spread out over eight years.
  5.  Martin Lel (Kenya). Two wins and both sub 2:08.

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One Response to “Top Ten London Marathon Winners”

  1. Gordon Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Very interesting. But would it be possible for the Runflux people to extend this list to give the top five in each age category over the years in the London Marathon, not just the elites? I’ve tried contacting David Bedford about this, but no reply. Someone, somewhere must have access to these statistics.
    Cheers!

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