Jim Peters (James Henry Peters; 24 October 1918 in London – 9 January 1999 in Thorpe Bay) was a former long-distance runner from England, who set new marathon records four times during the 1950s, including the first authenticated timing of under 2 hours 20 minutes, regarded as the equivalent of the sub-4-minute mile; this feat was achieved in the Polytechnic Marathon of 1953, a point-to-point race from Windsor to Chiswick, west London.
Later that same year he set the first sub-2:20 clocking on an out-and-back course, at the Enschede Marathon, Holland. However, he is most remembered for when he entered the Vancouver, British Columbia stadium near the end of the 1954 Commonwealth Games marathon with a five-kilometre (three-mile) lead but, severely dehydrated, staggered and collapsed several times and could not finish the final lap.
After retiring from competitive athletics, he worked as an optician in Chadwell Heath, Essex.
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1947: Eero Riikonen (FIN) • 1949: Jack Holden (ENG) • 1951: Veikko Karvonen (FIN) • 1953: Jim Peters (ENG) • 1955: Reinaldo Gorno (ARG) • 1957: Piet Bleeker (NED) • 1959: Pavel Kantorek (TCH) • 1961: Peter Wilkinson (GBR) • 1963: Václav Chudomel (TCH) • 1965: Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) • 1967: Yoshiro Mifune (JPN) • 1969: Kazuo Matsubara (JPN) • 1971: Bernie Allen (ENG) • 1973 – 1975: Ron Hill (ENG) • 1977: Brian Maxwell (CAN) • 1979: Kirk Pfeffer (USA) • 1981: Cor Vriend (NED) • 1983: Kevin Forster (GBR) • 1985: Zoltan Köszegi (HUN) • 1987 – 1989: Marti ten Kate (NED) • 1991: Sergey Prorokov (URS) • 1992: Willie Mtolo (RSA) • 1993: Jan Tau (RSA) • 1994: Piotr Poblocki (POL) • 1995: Viktor Goural (UKR) • 1996: John Mandu (KEN) • 1997: Dmitriy Kapitonov (RUS) • 1998: Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI) • 1999: Anatoli Zerouk (UKR) • 2000: Cancelled • 2001: El Mustapha Riad (MAR) • 2002: Raymond Kipkoech (KEN) • 2003: Wilson Kibet (KEN) • 2004: Girma Tolla (ETH) • 2005: John Kelai (KEN) • 2006: Sammy Rotich (KEN) • 2007: Thomson Cherognoy (KEN) • 2008: Silas Toek (KEN); • 2009: Jacob Kipchumba Yator (KEN)
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