1988 London Marathon

8th London Marathon
8th London Marathon
Venue	London, United Kingdom
Date	17 April 1988
Champions
Men	Henrik Jørgensen (2:10:20)
Women	Ingrid Kristiansen (2:25:41)
Wheelchair men	Ted Vince (2:01:37)
Wheelchair women	Karen Davidson (2:41:45)
	← 1987 1989 →

The 1988 London Marathon was the eighth running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 17 April. The elite men's race was won by Denmark's Henrik Jørgensen in a time of 2:10:20 hours and the women's race was won by Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:41.

In the wheelchair races, Canadian Ted Vince (2:01:37) and Britain's Karen Davidson (2:41:45) set course records in their wins of the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time a non-British athlete won one of wheelchair events.^[1]

Around 73,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 29,979 had their applications accepted and 22,469 started the race. A total of 20,932 runners finished the race – the first time the marathon had over 20,000 people achieve that.^[2]

Results

Men

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	2:10:20
	Kevin Forster	United Kingdom	2:10:52
	Kazuyoshi Kudo	Japan	2:10:59
4	Hugh Jones	United Kingdom	2:11:08
5	Dave Long	United Kingdom	2:11:33
6	Allister Hutton	United Kingdom	2:11:42
7	Herbert Steffny	West Germany	2:11:54
8	Cai Shangyan	China	2:11:58
9	John Wheway	United Kingdom	2:12:13
10	Charlie Spedding	United Kingdom	2:12:28
11	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:12:39
12	Steve Brace	United Kingdom	2:12:58
13	Gerhard Hartmann	Austria	2:13:33
14	Kenneth Stuart	United Kingdom	2:13:36
15	Jose Carlos da Silva	Brazil	2:13:42
16	Art Boileau	Canada	2:13:44
17	Dave Edge	Canada	2:14:10
18	Karl Harrison	United Kingdom	2:14:27
19	Mehmet Terzi	Turkey	2:14:51
20	Peter Lyrenmann	Switzerland	2:14:55

Women

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	2:25:41
	Ann Ford	United Kingdom	2:30:38
	Evy Palm	Sweden	2:31:35
4	Susan Wightman	United Kingdom	2:32:09
5	Susan Crehan	United Kingdom	2:35:10
6	Tove Lorentzen	Denmark	2:35:52
7	Jacqueline Gareau	Canada	2:36:04
8	Angie Hulley	United Kingdom	2:36:11
9	Rosemary Ellis	United Kingdom	2:37:10
10	Wang Qinghuan	China	2:37:42
11	Alison Gooderham	United Kingdom	2:37:49
12	Sheila Catford	United Kingdom	2:38:18
13	Dimitra Papaspirou	Greece	2:40:04
14	Anne Corneliussen	Norway	2:40:40
15	Oddrun Hovsengen	Norway	2:40:48
16	Heather MacDuff	United Kingdom	2:41:02
17	Anne Hannam	New Zealand	2:41:20
18	Mary O'Connor	New Zealand	2:42:25
19	Anita-Lynn Nielsen	Denmark	2:42:47
20	Zehava Shmueli	Israel	2:43:26

Wheelchair men

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Ted Vince	Canada	2:01:37
	Mike Bishop	United Kingdom	2:01:42
	Chris Hallam	United Kingdom	2:04:39
4	Kevin Breen	Ireland	2:21:44
5	Ivan Newman	United Kingdom	2:22:58
6	David Todd	United Kingdom	2:25:06
7	Ton Bonte	Netherlands	2:26:17
8	John Harris	United Kingdom	2:27:51
9	Colin Price	United Kingdom	2:32:26
10	Mark Agar	United Kingdom	2:32:39