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Len Hurst - The First Great Marathon Runner Style:Paperback Southampton’s Chapel Area – 100Published: Oct 2019 ISBN: 9781780915708 On the morning of Sunday July 19 1896, thousands of Parisians awoke early to watch the world's first city marathon. The winner, by a mile, was a brickmaker from Sittingbourne in South East England. Len Hurst won the 200 franc prize in a winning time of 2: 31: 30; 27 minutes faster than the mark of 2: 58: 50 set by Spiridon Louis of Greece three months earlier at the first Olympic marathon in Athens, Greece on 10