18th London Marathon | |
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Venue | London, United Kingdom |
Date | 26 April 1998 |
Champions | |
Men | Abel Antón (2:07:57) |
Women | Catherina McKiernan (2:26:26) |
Wheelchair men | Heinz Frei (1:35:18) |
Wheelchair women | Tanni Grey (2:02:01) |
The 1998 London Marathon was the 18th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 26 April. The elite men's race was won by Spain's Abel Antón in a time of 2:07:57 hours and the women's race was won by Ireland's Catherina McKiernan in 2:26:26.
In the wheelchair races, Switzerland's Heinz Frei (1:35:18) and Britain's Tanni Grey (2:02:01) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. Frei's winning time was a course record by a margin of nearly four minutes. [1]
Around 96,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 42,228 had their applications accepted and 30,663 started the race. A total of 29,972 runners finished the race. [2]
Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
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Abel Antón | Spain | 2:07:57 | |
Abdelkader El Mouaziz | Morocco | 2:08:07 | |
António Pinto | Portugal | 2:08:13 | |
4 | Julio Rey | Spain | 2:08:33 |
5 | Abebe Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 2:09:52 |
6 | Róbert Štefko | Slovakia | 2:09:54 |
7 | Diego García | Spain | 2:10:36 |
8 | Jon Brown | United Kingdom | 2:11:11 |
9 | Steve Moneghetti | Australia | 2:11:41 |
10 | Kenjiro Jitsui | Japan | 2:12:47 |
11 | Vincenzo Modica | Italy | 2:13:22 |
12 | Gideon Mutisya | Kenya | 2:13:41 |
13 | Antonio Serrano | Spain | 2:13:53 |
14 | Masaki Oya | Japan | 2:14:11 |
15 | Spyros Andriopoulos | Greece | 2:14:13 |
16 | Mark Hudspith | United Kingdom | 2:14:20 |
17 | Lawrence Peu | South Africa | 2:14:53 |
18 | Sean Quilty | Australia | 2:15:19 |
19 | Robert Johnston | New Zealand | 2:15:34 |
20 | Harri Hänninen | Finland | 2:16:09 |
— | Josia Thugwane | South Africa | DNF |
— | Jerry Lawson | United States | DNF |
— | Paul Evans | United Kingdom | DNF |
— | Shaun Creighton | Australia | DNF |
— | Gary Staines | United Kingdom | DNF |
— | Eduardo do Nascimento | Brazil | DNF |
— | Antonio Silio | Argentina | DNF |
Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
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Catherina McKiernan | Ireland | 2:26:26 | |
Liz McColgan | United Kingdom | 2:26:54 | |
Joyce Chepchumba | Kenya | 2:27:22 | |
4 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 2:27:30 |
5 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 2:28:41 |
6 | Sonja Oberem | Germany | 2:29:39 |
7 | Adriana Fernández | Mexico | 2:29:46 |
8 | Wang Yanfang | China | 2:30:47 |
9 | Małgorzata Sobańska | Poland | 2:32:02 |
10 | Marian Sutton | United Kingdom | 2:32:14 |
11 | Pan Jinhong | China | 2:35:38 |
12 | Taeko Terauchi | Japan | 2:36:33 |
13 | Wang Yanrong | China | 2:38:19 |
14 | Griselda González | Argentina | 2:39:08 |
15 | Debbie Percival | United Kingdom | 2:39:54 |
16 | Lucia Subano | Kenya | 2:40:25 |
17 | Stephanie Andrews | Canada | 2:40:48 |
18 | Tomoko Kitamura | Japan | 2:42:18 |
19 | Lieve Slegers | Belgium | 2:43:16 |
20 | Nicola Brown | United Kingdom | 2:43:18 |
— | Hellen Kimaiyo | Kenya | DNF |
Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
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Heinz Frei | Switzerland | 1:35:18 | |
Claude Issorat | France | 1:42:43 | |
Denis Lemeunier | France | 1:44:03 | |
4 | David Holding | United Kingdom | 1:46:04 |
5 | Ivan Newman | United Kingdom | 1:46:07 |
6 | Jurgen de Heve | Belgium | 1:46:01 |
7 | Bogdan Krol | Poland | 1:46:13 |
8 | George Schrattenecker | Austria | 1:49:15 |
9 | Chris Madden | United Kingdom | 1:51:38 |
10 | John Buren | Netherlands | 1:55:12 |
Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
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Tanni Grey | United Kingdom | 2:02:01 | |
Nicola Jarvis | United Kingdom | 2:22:54 | |
Fiona Neale | United Kingdom | 2:38:40 | |
4 | Mary Rice | United Kingdom | 3:22:04 |
5 | Tracy Gill | United Kingdom | 3:34:59 |
— | Rose Hill | United Kingdom | — |
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