Marathon Runner

This page lists 1,690 biographies of marathon runners, covering lives from 1850 to 2002. Featuring Alberto Salazar, Brendan Foster and John Volanthen. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Kirk Pfeffer

b. 1956

Aguelmis Rojas

b. 1978

Choi Yun-chil

1928 – 2020

Edoardo Righi

1926 – 2019

Danny McDaid

b. 1941

Iaroslav Mușinschi

b. 1976

James Bartlett

1908 – 1971

Zithulele Sinqe

1963 – 2011

Kentaro Nakamoto

b. 1982

Hussein Ahmed Salah

b. 1956

Sidney Hatch

1883 – 1966

Colin Kirkham

b. 1944

Getuli Bayo

b. 1980

Clement Lebopo

b. 1974

Ottaviano Andriani

b. 1974

Deena Kastor

b. 1973

Jean Boussière

1882 – 1915

Daniel Muchunu Mwangi

b. 1984

Francis Kirwa

b. 1974

Claire Hallissey

b. 1983

Jorge González

b. 1952

Kjell-Erik Ståhl

1946 – 2025

Anne Kosgei

b. 1980

Yukiko Okamoto

b. 1974

Jan Fjærestad

b. 1954

Franco Togni

1960 – 2016

James Beale

1881 – 1968

Tiki Gelana

b. 1987

Wei Yanan

b. 1981

Juma Ikangaa

b. 1957

Inge Simonsen

b. 1953

Mary Wagaki

b. 1954

James Corkery

1889 – 1964

Takeyuki Nakayama

b. 1959

Carlos Lopes

b. 1947

Axel Jensen

1899 – 1968

Ivan Filin

1926 – 2000

Juan Carlos Zabala

1911 – 1983

Yolimar Pineda

b. 1985

Samuel Muturi Mugo

b. 1986

Christian Gitsham

1888 – 1956

Kenza Wahbi

b. 1971

Moses Mosop

b. 1985

Mohammed Ghermati

b. 1897

Arjun Kumar Basnet

b. 1975

Shiso Kanakuri

1891 – 1983

Erkki Puolakka

1925 – 2008

George Goulding

1884 – 1966

Jacqueline Hansen

b. 1948

Daniel Rono

b. 1978

Michael Shelley

b. 1983

Wilson Theleso

b. 1960

Jenny Wood-Allen

1911 – 2010

Pyambuugiin Tuul

b. 1959

Caitriona Jennings

b. 1980

Fernand Kolbeck

b. 1944

Leonardo Illut

b. 1956

Nelly Chávez

b. 1945

Günther Weidlinger

b. 1978

Yohanes Ghebregergis

b. 1989

Angela Brito

b. 1985

Carlo Airoldi

1869 – 1929

Aheza Kiros

b. 1985

Ren Longyun

b. 1987

Georg Hoerger

1897 – 1975

Helena Javornik

b. 1966

Jeison Suárez

b. 1991

Kathryn Binns

b. 1958

Charles Dewachtere

1927 – 2020

Julia Armstrong

b. 1959

Stephan Freigang

b. 1967

Konstantin Vorobyov

b. 1930

José Manuel García

b. 1966

Djama Robleh

b. 1958

Buster Martin

1906 – 2011

Nicholas Kemboi

b. 1983

Joe McGhee

1929 – 2015

Alessandro Di Lello

b. 1977

Belayneh Densamo

b. 1965

Zhou Chunxiu

b. 1978

Yoshiaki Unetani

1944 – 2022

Henrik Ripszám

1889 – 1976

Eyerusalem Kuma

b. 1981

Dieudonné LaMothe

b. 1954

Elmar Reimann

1893 – 1963

Glynis Penny

b. 1951

Aselefech Mergia

b. 1985

Alemayehu Shumye

1988 – 2013

Aleksey Reunkov

b. 1984

Richer Pérez

b. 1986

Edwin Kipchirchir Kemboi

b. 1984

Henryk Szost

b. 1982

Dionisio Carreras

1890 – 1949

Solonei da Silva

b. 1982

Martin Mathathi

b. 1985

Irina Timofeyeva

b. 1970

Belisario Villacís

b. 1899

Trevor Haynes

1929 – 2025

Ryan Hall

b. 1982

Stepan Kiselyov

b. 1986