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Mark Edward Hudspith (born 19 January 1969) is a male English former long-distance runner.
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Mark Edward Hudspith (born 19 January 1969) is a male English former long-distance runner.
Hudspith represented England and won the bronze medal in the Marathon at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. [1] [2] [3] At the time he was the first Briton to win a major championship medal in the Marathon in 10 years, since Charlie Spedding won bronze at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. [4] Eight years later he represented England again at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. [5]
Hudspith studied at Durham University. [6] He achieved a personal best time of 2:11:58 in London on 2 April 1995. [7]
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