# 1989 London Marathon

The 1989 London Marathon was the ninth running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 23 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Douglas Wakiihuri in a time of 2:09:03 hours and the women's race was won by home athlete Véronique Marot in 2:25:56. Marot's time was a British national record, which stood for 13 years before Paula Radcliffe improved it with a world record at the 2002 London Marathon.
In the wheelchair races, British athletes David Holding (1:59:31) and Josie Cichockyj (3:03:54) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time an athlete completed the wheelchair marathon in under two hours.
Around 72,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 31,772 had their applications accepted and 24,452 started the race. A total of 22,701 runners finished the race.

## Results
### Men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Douglas Wakiihuri | Kenya | 2:09:03 |
| | Steve Moneghetti | Australia | 2:09:06 |
| | Hussein Ahmed Salah | Djibouti | 2:09:09 |
| 4 | Manuel Matias | Portugal | 2:09:43 |
| 5 | Suleiman Nyambui | Tanzania | 2:09:52 |
| 6 | Tony Milovsorov | United Kingdom | 2:09:54 |
| 7 | Pat Petersen | United States | 2:10:04 |
| 8 | Wodajo Bulti | Ethiopia | 2:10:32 |
| 9 | Takao Nakamura | Japan | 2:11:51 |
| 10 | Zhang Guowei | China | 2:12:03 |
| 11 | Michael O'Reilly | United Kingdom | 2:12:16 |
| 12 | John Wheway | United Kingdom | 2:12:22 |
| 13 | Allister Hutton | United Kingdom | 2:12:47 |
| 14 | Tefera Guta | Ethiopia | 2:12:49 |
| 15 | Kenneth Stuart | United Kingdom | 2:12:53 |
| 16 | Jose Carlos da Silva | Brazil | 2:12:57 |
| 17 | Allan Zachariasen | Denmark | 2:13:15 |
| 18 | Peter Maher | Canada | 2:13:25 |
| 19 | Kevin Forster | United Kingdom | 2:13:31 |
| 20 | John Andrew Boyes | United Kingdom | 2:13:45 |
| 21 | Peter Dall | Denmark | 2:14:25 |
| 22 | Giuseppe Denti | Italy | 2:14:29 |
| 23 | Bjorn Sivertsen | Denmark | 2:14:33 |
| 24 | Igor Braslavskiy | Soviet Union | 2:14:38 |
| 25 | Yuri Porotov | Soviet Union | 2:15:10 |

### Women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Véronique Marot | United Kingdom | 2:25:56 |
| | Wanda Panfil | Poland | 2:27:05 |
| | Aurora Cunha | Portugal | 2:28:11 |
| 4 | Dorthe Rasmussen | Denmark | 2:29:34 |
| 5 | Raisa Smekhnova | Soviet Union | 2:30:15 |
| 6 | Evy Palm | Sweden | 2:31:05 |
| 7 | Angie Hulley | United Kingdom | 2:31:06 |
| 8 | Lynn Harding | United Kingdom | 2:31:45 |
| 9 | Charlotte Teske | West Germany | 2:32:34 |
| 10 | Conceição Ferreira | Portugal | 2:32:50 |
| 11 | Sheila Catford | United Kingdom | 2:33:04 |
| 12 | Sally Ellis | United Kingdom | 2:33:24 |
| 13 | Krystyna Chylińska | Poland | 2:33:46 |
| 14 | Jill Clarke Harrison | United Kingdom | 2:34:19 |
| 15 | Sissel Grottenberg | Norway | 2:35:01 |
| 16 | Sandra Branney | United Kingdom | 2:35:03 |
| 17 | Rosemary Ellis | United Kingdom | 2:35:32 |
| 18 | Marina Samy | United Kingdom | 2:36:32 |
| 19 | Maria Polyzou | Greece | 2:37:03 |
| 20 | Dominique Rembert | France | 2:37:04 |
| 21 | Małgorzata Birbach | Poland | 2:37:08 |
| 22 | Nicola Morris | United Kingdom | 2:38:21 |
| 23 | Lyubov Klochko | Soviet Union | 2:38:22 |
| 24 | Christine Kennedy | Ireland | 2:39:13 |
| 25 | Ewa Szydlowska | Poland | 2:39:21 |

### Wheelchair men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | David Holding | United Kingdom | 1:59:31 |
| | Ted Vince | Canada | 1:59:32 |
| | Chris Hallam | United Kingdom | 1:59:33 |
| 4 | Scott Paterson | Canada | 1:59:39 |
| 5 | Lex de Turck | Netherlands | 2:08:12 |
| 6 | Andy Haynes | United Kingdom | 2:09:55 |
| 7 | Ian Thompson | United Kingdom | 2:11:24 |
| 8 | Ivan Newman | United Kingdom | 2:16:30 |
| 9 | Kevin Breen | Ireland | 2:16:35 |
| 10 | Kevin Doran | United Kingdom | 2:22:04 |

### Wheelchair women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Josie Cichockyj | United Kingdom | 3:03:54 |
| — | Karen Davidson | United Kingdom | DNF | – | Karen Davidson | United Kingdom | DNF |