Mark Edward Hudspith (born 19 January 1969) is a male English former long-distance runner.
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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
Born | Tynemouth, Northumberland | 19 January 1969||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Club | Morpeth | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Athletics career
editHudspith 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]
Personal life
editHudspith studied at Durham University.[6] He achieved a personal best time of 2:11:58 in London on 2 April 1995.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Mark Hudspith". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Revitalised Moneghetti takes marathon: Bronze for". The Independent. 29 August 1994. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Hatfield College History". community.dur.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- ^ "IAAF: Mark Hudspith Profile". iaaf.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018.