Edinburgh Marathon
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History
On 5 September 1982, the Edinburgh Festival Marathon was the first mass marathon event to be held in the city.[1] Starting in Holyrood Park and running through the Grassmarket and down Lothian Road, along Princes Street and down into Leith, along to Cramond and along the coast back through Silverknowes to Leith, up Easter Road and finishing in Meadowbank Stadium. The following year the race was called the Scotway Marathon and got off to an eventful start when a foolish fun-runner brought down the previous year's winner, breaking bones in the latter's hand. An Edinburgh Waverley Market Marathon was held on Sept 2nd 1984 with winner Lindsay Robertson in a then PB of 2:15:55. The Edinburgh Waverley Market Marathon again took place on Sept 1st 1985. Winner was M Carroll in 2:18:41. In 1986 it was called the Commonwealth Games People's Marathon and held in June, a month ahead of the Commonwealth Games.[2] In 1999 the PUMA Edinburgh Marathon was held, leaving from Dunfermline and finishing in Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh.[3]
The Edinburgh Marathon Festival was founded by Geoff Sims and the first year's event on 15 June 2003, attracted just 3,000 participants. The course started at Meadowbank Stadium, taking in Princes Street, Holyrood Palace and the Royal Yacht Britannia.[4] Frank McGowan from Glasgow won the men's race in 2.35 with the slowest man Lloyd Stott taking more than six days to complete the race wearing a deep sea diving suit weighing more than 100 pounds.
In 2007 organisers designed a new route, that headed into East Lothian through, Musselburgh, Prestonpans, Cockenzie, Port Seton to Gosford House, then back up to the finishing line at the playing fields at Pinkie St Peter's Primary School, Musselburgh. With an elevation drop of 40 metres, the average finish time was almost 12 minutes faster than previous year's Edinburgh earned its title of UK's fastest marathon. It was the first year that the event made a profit.[5] Road closures for the new route affected around 130 streets.[6]
In 2010, the half marathon was introduced for the first time with entry levels jumping to more than 24,000.
2011 was the first time the Edinburgh Marathon Festival was hosted over two days. As well as the full marathon, the festival also included a 5K, 10K, two junior races and a half marathon and a team relay race, affectionately named the "Hairy Haggis."
The 2020 edition of the race was postponed to 30 May 2021Template:Efn due to the coronavirus pandemic, then again to 29 May 2022.[7]
Men's winners
| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:21:09 | [1] | |
| 1983 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:21:36 | [8] | |
| 2003 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:16:21 | ||
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:21:45 | ||
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:15:26 | ||
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:15:46P | ||
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:31:57 | ||
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:25:05 | ||
| 2009 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:18:24 | ||
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:26:31 | ||
| 2011 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:19:21 | ||
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:19:52 | ||
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:15:32 | [9] | |
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:15:33 | ||
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:19:36 | ||
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:19:55 | [10] | |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:17:13 | ||
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:13:33 | Course record | |
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:30:13 | ||
| 2020 | postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemicTemplate:R | ||||
| 2021 | postponed to 2022 due to coronavirus pandemic | ||||
| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:17:57 | ||
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:21:34 | ||
Half Marathon
| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dave Webb | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:04:45 | [11] | |
| 2011 | Andrew Douglas | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:06:49 | ||
| 2012 | Michael Deason | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:08:20 | ||
| 2013 | William Ryan Beattie | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:09:30 | ||
| 2014 | Ross Houston | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:07:16 | ||
| 2015 | Thomas Porter | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:08:58 | ||
| 2016 | Darrell Hastie | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:10:38 | ||
| 2017 | Pasquale-Roberto Rutigliano | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:09:39 | ||
| 2018 | Severino Gómez | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:10:37 | ||
| 2019 | Karl Darcy | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:07:40 | ||
| 2020 | postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemicTemplate:R | ||||
| 2021 | postponed to 2022 due to coronavirus pandemicTemplate:R | ||||
Women's winners
| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:49:34 | [1] | |
| 1983 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | [8] | ||
| 2003 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:48:06 | ||
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:47:24 | ||
| 2005 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:33:36 | Course record | |
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:51:41 | ||
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:54:43 | ||
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:47:56 | ||
| 2009 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:41:38 | ||
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:38:16 | ||
| 2011 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:42:59 | ||
| 2012 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:39:48 | ||
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:35:58 | ||
| 2014 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:36:07 | ||
| 2015 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:39:42 | ||
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:39:53 | [10] | |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:37:46 | ||
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:47:35 | ||
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:42:56 | ||
| 2020 | postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemicTemplate:R | ||||
| 2021 | postponed to 2022 due to coronavirus pandemic | ||||
| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:45:03 | ||
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2:39:39 | ||
Half Marathon
| Year | Athlete | Nationality | Time (h:m:s) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dianne Lauder | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:16:59 | [11] | |
| 2011 | Becky Penty | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:15:31 | ||
| 2012 | Gabriela Traña | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:15:01 | ||
| 2013 | Dianne Lauder | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:24:50 | ||
| 2014 | Gladys Ganiel | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:17:26 | ||
| 2015 | Gemma Rankin | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:17:21 | ||
| 2016 | Tracy Millmore | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:18:41 | ||
| 2017 | Avril Mason | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:19:49 | ||
| 2018 | Breege Connolly | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:16:07 | ||
| 2019 | Molly Browne | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1:18:27 | ||
| 2020 | postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemicTemplate:R | ||||
| 2021 | postponed to 2022 due to coronavirus pandemic | ||||
Finisher statistics
Total of runners finishing the original marathon distance
| Year | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 2028 | 754 | 2782 |
| 2004 | 2114 | 738 | 2853 |
| 2005 | 3227 | 1192 | 4419 |
| 2006 | 2926 | 1170 | 4096 |
| 2007 | 2538 | 1031 | 3587 |
| 2008 | 4520 | 2092 | 6612 |
| 2009 | 5570 | 2684 | 8254 |
| 2010 | 6647 | 2812 | 9459 |
| 2011 | 6797 | 2940 | 9737 |
| 2012 | 5425 | 2638 | 8063 |
| 2013 | 5414 | 2728 | 8142 |
| 2014 | 5806 | 2809 | 8615 |
| 2015 | 4796 | 2389 | 7185 |
| 2016 | 4274 | 2322 | 6596 |
Criticism
For the 2014 race, the organisers sent competitors details of their individual times but initially did not publish the full results, only giving times for the top three in each category.[12] Within a few days, EMF events issued an apology via their website and published the full results.[13]
Notes
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