1989 London Marathon

The 1989 London Marathon was the ninth running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 23 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Douglas Wakiihuri in a time of 2:09:03 hours and the women's race was won by home athlete Véronique Marot in 2:25:56. Marot's time was a British national record, which stood for 13 years before Paula Radcliffe improved it with a world record at the 2002 London Marathon.^[1]

9th London Marathon
Venue	London, United Kingdom
Date	23 April 1989
Champions
Men	Douglas Wakiihuri (2:09:03)
Women	Véronique Marot (2:25:56)
Wheelchair men	David Holding (1:59:31)
Wheelchair women	Josie Cichockyj (3:03:54)
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In the wheelchair races, British athletes David Holding (1:59:31) and Josie Cichockyj (3:03:54) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time an athlete completed the wheelchair marathon in under two hours.^[2]

Around 72,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 31,772 had their applications accepted and 24,452 started the race. A total of 22,701 runners finished the race.^[3]

Results

Men

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Douglas Wakiihuri	Kenya	2:09:03
	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:09:06
	Hussein Ahmed Salah	Djibouti	2:09:09
4	Manuel Matias	Portugal	2:09:43
5	Suleiman Nyambui	Tanzania	2:09:52
6	Tony Milovsorov	United Kingdom	2:09:54
7	Pat Petersen	United States	2:10:04
8	Wodajo Bulti	Ethiopia	2:10:32
9	Takao Nakamura	Japan	2:11:51
10	Zhang Guowei	China	2:12:03
11	Michael O'Reilly	United Kingdom	2:12:16
12	John Wheway	United Kingdom	2:12:22
13	Allister Hutton	United Kingdom	2:12:47
14	Tefera Guta	Ethiopia	2:12:49
15	Kenneth Stuart	United Kingdom	2:12:53
16	Jose Carlos da Silva	Brazil	2:12:57
17	Allan Zachariasen	Denmark	2:13:15
18	Peter Maher	Canada	2:13:25
19	Kevin Forster	United Kingdom	2:13:31
20	John Andrew Boyes	United Kingdom	2:13:45
21	Peter Dall	Denmark	2:14:25
22	Giuseppe Denti	Italy	2:14:29
23	Bjorn Sivertsen	Denmark	2:14:33
24	Igor Braslavskiy	Soviet Union	2:14:38
25	Yuri Porotov	Soviet Union	2:15:10

Women

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Véronique Marot	United Kingdom	2:25:56
	Wanda Panfil	Poland	2:27:05
	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	2:28:11
4	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	2:29:34
5	Raisa Smekhnova	Soviet Union	2:30:15
6	Evy Palm	Sweden	2:31:05
7	Angie Hulley	United Kingdom	2:31:06
8	Lynn Harding	United Kingdom	2:31:45
9	Charlotte Teske	West Germany	2:32:34
10	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	2:32:50
11	Sheila Catford	United Kingdom	2:33:04
12	Sally Ellis	United Kingdom	2:33:24
13	Krystyna Chylińska	Poland	2:33:46
14	Jill Clarke Harrison	United Kingdom	2:34:19
15	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	2:35:01
16	Sandra Branney	United Kingdom	2:35:03
17	Rosemary Ellis	United Kingdom	2:35:32
18	Marina Samy	United Kingdom	2:36:32
19	Maria Polyzou	Greece	2:37:03
20	Dominique Rembert	France	2:37:04
21	Małgorzata Birbach	Poland	2:37:08
22	Nicola Morris	United Kingdom	2:38:21
23	Lyubov Klochko	Soviet Union	2:38:22
24	Christine Kennedy	Ireland	2:39:13
25	Ewa Szydlowska	Poland	2:39:21

Wheelchair men

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	David Holding	United Kingdom	1:59:31
	Ted Vince	Canada	1:59:32
	Chris Hallam	United Kingdom	1:59:33
4	Scott Paterson	Canada	1:59:39
5	Lex de Turck	Netherlands	2:08:12
6	Andy Haynes	United Kingdom	2:09:55
7	Ian Thompson	United Kingdom	2:11:24
8	Ivan Newman	United Kingdom	2:16:30
9	Kevin Breen	Ireland	2:16:35
10	Kevin Doran	United Kingdom	2:22:04

Wheelchair women

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Josie Cichockyj	United Kingdom	3:03:54
—	Karen Davidson	United Kingdom	DNF

References

1. Whittington, Jessica (2016-04-17). Véronique Marot ready for London return. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
2. 2015 London Marathon Media Guide^{[permanent dead link]}. London Marathon (2015). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
3. Stats and Figures 23 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine. London Marathon. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

Results

• Results. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2020-04-23.

External links