Mark Hudspith

Mark Hudspith

Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1969-01-19) 19 January 1969 (age 56) Tynemouth, England
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long-distance
Club	Morpeth AC
Medal record Men's athletics Representing England Commonwealth Games 1994 Victoria Men's Marathon

Mark Edward Hudspith (born 19 January 1969) is a male English former long-distance runner.

Biography

Hudspith studied at Durham University. ^[1] He achieved a personal best time of 2:11:58 in London on 2 April 1995. ^[2]

Hudspith represented England and won the bronze medal in the Marathon at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. ^{[3] [4] [5]} 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. ^[6] Eight years later he represented England again at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. ^[7]

Hudspith was three-times British marathon champion by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete in the London marathon and therefore taking the AAA Championships title in 1998, 1999 and 2000. ^{[8] [9]}

His brother Ian Hudspith was also a notable athlete and was the British champion at the 1997 British Athletics Championships. ^[10]

References

1. "Hatfield College History". community.dur.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
2. "IAAF: Mark Hudspith Profile". iaaf.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
3. "Mark Hudspith". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
4. "1994 Athletes". Team England.
5. "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
6. "Commonwealth Games: Revitalised Moneghetti takes marathon: Bronze for". The Independent. 29 August 1994. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
7. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
8. "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
9. "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
10. "Wilmslow Half-Marathon" . Manchester Evening News. 30 March 1998. Retrieved 11 July 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.