Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Men's marathon

The men's marathon event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 8 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.[1]

The two Tanzanians, Juma Ikangaa and reigning champion Gidamis Shahanga, opened up a large lead (estimated at close to 500 metres), but Rob de Castella closed the gap in the final kilometres to win.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Robert de Castella	Australia	2:09:18
	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:09:30
	Mike Gratton	England	2:12:06
4	John Graham	Scotland	2:13:04
5	Kevin Ryan	New Zealand	2:13:42
6	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	2:14:25
7	Graham Laing	Scotland	2:14:54
8	Ian Ray	England	2:15:11
9	Mike Dyon	Canada	2:15:22
10	Robert Wallace	Australia	2:15:24
11	Raymond Smedley	England	2:15:50
12	Samuel Hlawe	Swaziland	2:16:32
13	Dennis Fowles	Wales	2:16:49
14	Greg Hannon	Northern Ireland	2:17:32
15	Peter Butler	Canada	2:18:17
16	Sipho Gamedze	Swaziland	2:18:44
17	Emmanuel Ndiemandoi	Tanzania	2:19:16
18	Marios Kassianidis	Cyprus	2:19:51
19	Sammy Mogere	Kenya	2:21:44
20	Wilson Theleso	Botswana	2:23:10
21	Esau Zwane	Swaziland	2:26:38
22	Motsemme Kgaotsang	Botswana	2:27:39
23	Musaope Phiri	Zimbabwe	2:28:27
24	James Maweu	Kenya	2:29:15
25	Esau Magwaza	Zimbabwe	2:30:34
26	Matthews Kambale	Malawi	2:33:34
27	Mackay Talasasa	Solomon Islands	2:36:16
28	Abel Manumanua	Papua New Guinea	2:42:07
29	Nicholas Akers	Cayman Islands	3:02:33
	Lawrence Whitty	Australia	DNF
	Shiri Chand	Fiji	DNF
	Wayne Madden	Fiji	DNF
	Gary Palmer	New Zealand	DNF
	Donald Greig	New Zealand	DNF
	Tau Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	DNF
	David Bonn	Cayman Islands	DNS
	Bineshwar Prasad	Fiji	DNS
	Nada Meta	Tanzania	DNS
	Steve Jones	Wales	DNS

References

"Results". Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

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[1] "Results". Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

Marathon at the Commonwealth Games
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Women's	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018