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1983 London Marathon

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3rd London Marathon
VenueLondon, United Kingdom
Date17 April 1983
Champions
MenMike Gratton (2:09:43)
WomenGrete Waitz (2:25:29)
Wheelchair menGordon Perry (3:20:07)
Wheelchair womenDenise Smith (4:29:03)
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The 1983 London Marathon was the third running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 17 April. The elite men's race was won by home athlete Mike Gratton in a time of 2:09:43 hours and the women's race was won by Norway's Grete Waitz in 2:25:29. Waitz's time was a marathon world record, yet it stood for only one day as it was beaten by Joan Benoit at the 1983 Boston Marathon.[1]

Around 60,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 19,735 had their applications accepted and around 16,500 started the race. A total of 15,793 runners finished the race.[2]

A wheelchair race was held for the first time, organised by the British Sports Association for the Disabled, and British athletes Gordon Perry and Denise Smith won the men's and women's divisions, respectively.[3] The race organiser Chris Brasher had opposed the inclusion of wheelchair racers, emphasising that it should remain a running competition and that the inclusion of wheeled racers would lead to accidents and "more disability". The Greater London Council, under the leadership of Ken Livingstone and Illtyd Harrington, threatened to withdraw funding for the event, forcing the organisers to relent and include wheelchair athletes.[4]

Results

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Men

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mike Gratton  United Kingdom 2:09:43
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gerard Helme  United Kingdom 2:10:12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Henrik Jørgensen  Denmark 2:10:47
4 Kebede Balcha  Ethiopia 2:11:32
5 James Dingwall  United Kingdom 2:11:44
6 Ricardo Ortega  Spain 2:11:51
7 Martin McCarthy  United Kingdom 2:11:54
8 Emiel Puttemans  Belgium 2:12:27
9 Trevor Wright  New Zealand 2:12:29
10 Øyvind Dahl  Norway 2:12:43
11 David Cannon  United Kingdom 2:12:51
12 Fred Vandervennet  Belgium 2:13:01
13 Raymond Crabb  United Kingdom 2:13:15
14 Dennis Fowles  United Kingdom 2:13:21
15 Jan Fjærestad  Norway 2:13:31
16 Marc De Blander  Belgium 2:13:43
17 John Caine  United Kingdom 2:13:43
18 Mervyn Brameld  United Kingdom 2:13:48
19 Eirik Berge  Norway 2:13:50
20 Bernard Bobes  France 2:14:00
21 Gyorgy Sinko  Hungary 2:14:11

Women

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Grete Waitz  Norway 2:25:29
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mary O'Connor  New Zealand 2:28:20
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Glynis Penny  United Kingdom 2:36:21
4 Karolina Szabó  Hungary 2:36:22
5 Jillian Colwell  Australia 2:37:12
6 Antonia Ladanyi  Hungary 2:37:42
7 Deirdre Nagle  Ireland 2:37:42
8 Kathryn Binns  United Kingdom 2:38:11
9 Sarah Rowell  United Kingdom 2:39:11
10 Priscilla Welch  United Kingdom 2:39:29
11 Jacquie Turney  Australia 2:40:05
12 Sally Ann Hales  United Kingdom 2:40:08
13 Heidi Jacobsen  Norway 2:40:11
14 Zehava Shmueli  Israel 2:40:29
15 Julie Asgill  United Kingdom 2:40:59
16 Dorothy Browne  Australia 2:41:24
17 Mette Holm  Denmark 2:41:35
18 Kersti Jakobsen  Denmark 2:41:53
19 Margaret Lockley  United Kingdom 2:42:08
20 Karen Whapshott  United Kingdom 2:42:13

Wheelchair men

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gordon Perry  United Kingdom 3:20:07
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Joe Fletcher  United Kingdom 3:25:03
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tim Marshall  United Kingdom 3:26:15
4 Leroy Dobson  United Kingdom 3:27:40
5 Charles Raymond  United Kingdom 3:52:55
6 Ertie Gomec  Turkey 3:55:50
7 James Gilham  United Kingdom 3:56:57
8 Shahriar Esfandiari  Iran 4:08:16
9 Stuart Anderson  United Kingdom 4:29:03
10 Graham Young  United Kingdom 4:35:11

Wheelchair women

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Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Denise Smith  United Kingdom 4:29:03
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Joanne Roberts  United Kingdom 6:09:03

References

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  1. ^ McGuire, Jane (23 April 2020). 40 moments from 40 years of the London Marathon. Runners World . Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  2. ^ Stats and Figures Archived 23 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine. London Marathon. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  3. ^ 2015 London Marathon Media Guide[permanent dead link‍]. London Marathon (2015). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  4. ^ Paralympics archive: the marathon debate (1983). Channel 4 (28 August 2012). Retrieved 2020-04-27.
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