Eamonn Martin

Martin is the most recent British male winner of the London Marathon, where he recorded a time of 2:10:50, winning the 1993 race in a sprint finish against the Mexican athlete Isidro Rico. The race was Martin’s début marathon and he went on to win the Chicago Marathon in 1995 (2:11:18).

As a junior, Eamonn Martin won a national title at the English Schools Athletics Association Cross-Country Championships in 1973 ahead of runner-up Steve Ovett.[2] He went on to compete at the top level in track, cross country, and road racing. He was the National Cross-Country Champion in 1984 and 1992 and he won the Belfast International Cross Country race in 1991, and he is the current English Cross-Country team manager. Martin had disappointing races at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the 1984 Olympic 5000-metre final and dropping out of the 1988 Olympic 10,000-metre final (see, for example, The Big Olympic Book / Suuri Olympiateos, volumes 4 and 6, published in Finland in 1984 and 1988, respectively).

He represented England and won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres event in a time of 28:08.56, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[3][4] Four years later he represented England, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[5][6][7]

Martin currently works for HORIBA MIRA Ltd.,[8] and formerly worked for Ford.[9] In 1993 his son, also called Eamonn Martin, was born.[9] His daughters, Lydia born 1986, and Rose born 1989, are active runners.

• Eamonn Martin at World Athletics
• Eamonn Thomas Martin at the International Olympic Committee
• Eamonn Martin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Senior men’s winners of the English National Cross-country Championships