Mark Hudspith
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 January 1969 Tynemouth, England | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Morpeth AC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Mark Edward Hudspith (born 19 January 1969) is a male English former long-distance runner.
Biography
[edit]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] At the time he was the first British athlete to win a major championship medal in the marathon in 10 years, since Charlie Spedding won bronze at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.[3] He represented England again at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[5]
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.[6][7]
His brother Ian Hudspith won the 10,000 metres event at the 1997 British Athletics Championships.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "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.
- 1 2 Mackay, Duncan (29 August 1994). "Commonwealth Games: Revitalised Moneghetti takes marathon: Bronze for England's Hudspith while sprinter fron Sierra Leone is latest athlete to give positive drugs test". The Independent. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- ↑ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- ↑ "Wilmslow Half-Marathon". Manchester Evening News. 30 March 1998. Retrieved 11 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Living people
- 1969 births
- English men marathon runners
- British men marathon runners
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics