Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Men's marathon

The men's marathon event was held on 8 October 1982. It started and finished at South Brisbane, next to the Brisbane River in Stanley Street.Brisbane, Australia.

Two of the Tanzanians, Juma Ikangaa and reigning champion Gidamis Shahanga, opened up a large lead (58 seconds at the 30 km mark),^[1] but Rob de Castella closed the gap in the final kilometres to win.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Robert de Castella	Australia	2:09:18
	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:09:30
	Mike Gratton	England	2:12:06
4	John Graham	Scotland	2:13:04
5	Kevin Ryan	New Zealand	2:13:42
6	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	2:14:25
7	Graham Laing	Scotland	2:14:54
8	Ian Ray	England	2:15:11
9	Mike Dyon	Canada	2:15:22
10	Robert Wallace	Australia	2:15:24
11	Raymond Smedley	England	2:15:50
12	Samuel Hlawe	Swaziland	2:16:32
13	Dennis Fowles	Wales	2:16:49
14	Greg Hannon	Northern Ireland	2:17:32
15	Peter Butler	Canada	2:18:17
16	Sipho Gamedze	Swaziland	2:18:44
17	Emmanuel Ndiemandoi	Tanzania	2:19:16
18	Marios Kassianidis	Cyprus	2:19:51
19	Sammy Mogere	Kenya	2:21:44
20	Wilson Theleso	Botswana	2:23:10
21	Esau Zwane	Swaziland	2:26:38
22	Motsemme Kgaotsang	Botswana	2:27:39
23	Musaope Phiri	Zimbabwe	2:28:27
24	James Maweu	Kenya	2:29:15
25	Esau Magwaza	Zimbabwe	2:30:34
26	Matthews Kambale	Malawi	2:33:34
27	Mackay Talasasa	Solomon Islands	2:36:16
28	Abel Manumanua	Papua New Guinea	2:42:07
29	Nicholas Akers	Cayman Islands	3:02:33
	Lawrence Whitty	Australia	DNF
	Shiri Chand	Fiji	DNF
	Wayne Madden	Fiji	DNF
	Gary Palmer	New Zealand	DNF
	Donald Greig	New Zealand	DNF
	Tau Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	DNF
	David Bonn	Cayman Islands	DNS
	Bineshwar Prasad	Fiji	DNS
	Nada Meta	Tanzania	DNS
	Steve Jones	Wales	DNS