Marathons and Medals in the mid 1980’s

Continuing through the history of the Wilmslow Half Marathon; the second marathon was on March 31st in 1985.  There were two new winners. Steve Anders, in 1:05:21, bettered the Men’s 1985 time by 200 seconds; whilst Susan Catterall with a time of 1:22:28  improved the Women’s record time by 4 minutes and 27 seconds. There were 1937 runners that day. Nearly 300 more than ran in the first Wilmslow Marathon.

A year later on April 6th 1986 Steve Anders returned to run, and defended his title, improving his time of 1:5:21 by over a minute. The Ladies winner was C Harkin, and her winning time of 1:17:03 was over 5 minutes quicker than the 1985 record time.

The medals awarded then looked like this:

Picture curtesy of Nigel Day

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