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Hideo Hamamura (濱村 秀雄, Hamamura Hideo, 20 July 1928 – 7 May 2000) was a Japanese marathon runner.
He won the Boston Marathon in 1955 in a time of 2:18.22 which was a course record. He was 16th in the 1956 Olympic Games marathon in Melbourne.
After retiring from competitive racing, he became an athletics coach.
He died on 7 May 2000 from a malignant tumour.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Boston Marathon champion Hideo Hamamura has passed away". IAAF. 9 May 2000. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
External links
edit- Hideo Hamamura at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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