INTRODUCTION
At 3;13pm on Sunday December 1 1956, in front of a crowd of 100,000 people,46
starters set off around the Melboourne Cricket Ground.
Two hours and twenty five minutes later, Alain Mimoun crossed the finish line
to win the final event of the Melbourne Olympic Games.
This Website is dedicated to commemorating the Melbourne Olympic Marathon, by
allowing all of us to run the same route on the 50th Anniversary of the games.
WHO
My name is Peter Moore, and as an 8 year old from high up in the Olympic
Stand at the MCG, I watched Vladimir Kuts win on the track, and the High Jump
go on into the dusk. Like many other Melburnians, we had our own Backyard
Olympics, where we dreamed of the future. Some of my friends remember being
taken out along St Kilda Rd and Dandenong Road to watch the Marathon runners
pass.
Later, I ran in the Olympic Tyres Marathons, organized bt South Melbounre
Athletic Club at Princes Park and Albert Park, early in December to coincide
with the anniversary of the Olympic Marathon.
In 2000, I ran with many others the Hst City Marathon in Sydney, and came
back a few months later to watch the Sydney Olympic Games Marathon.
Melbourne is my home town, so I would love to run the same course as the 1956
Olympians.
WHY
2006 is the year of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and the 50th
Anniversary of the Melbourne Olympic Games.
I want the Melbourne Marathon in 2006 to use the same course as the Olympic
Games, so I and lots of others can remeber the deeds of legends such as
Mimoun and Zatopek, and the Australians Keith Ollerenshaw, John Russell and
Bruce McKay, as well as those who came afterwards, like Ron Clarke, Derek
Clayton, Rob Decastella, Steve Monaghetti, Lisa Ondieki, Kerryn McCann.
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