Mark Hudspith
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1969-01-19) 19 January 1969 Tynemouth, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Morpeth AC | ||||||||||||||
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Mark Edward Hudspith (born 19 January 1969) is a male English former long-distance runner.
Biography
Hudspith studied at Durham University.[1] He achieved a personal best time of 2:11:58 in London on 2 April 1995.[2]
Hudspith represented England and won the bronze medal in the Marathon at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.[3][4][5] At the time he was the first Briton to win a major championship medal in the marathon in 10 years, since Charlie Spedding won bronze at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.[6] Eight years later he represented England again at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[7]
Hudspith was three-times British marathon champion by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete in the London marathon and therefore taking the AAA Championships title in 1998, 1999 and 2000.[8][9]
His brother Ian Hudspith was also a notable athlete and was the British champion at the 1997 British Athletics Championships.[10]
References
- ^"Hatfield College History". community.dur.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- ^"IAAF: Mark Hudspith Profile". iaaf.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^"Mark Hudspith". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^"1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^"England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^"Commonwealth Games: Revitalised Moneghetti takes marathon: Bronze for". The Independent. 29 August 1994. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^"Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^"AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- ^"AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- ^"Wilmslow Half-Marathon". Manchester Evening News. 30 March 1998. Retrieved 11 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Living people
- 1969 births
- English men marathon runners
- British men marathon runners
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics