# 1988 London Marathon

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.
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.

## 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 |

### Wheelchair women

| Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| Karen Davidson | United Kingdom | 2:41:45 |
| Josie Cichockyj | United Kingdom | 3:13:27 |
| Collette Rush | United Kingdom | 3:25:49 |