Stitch foils runner
NZPA-Reuler Rotterdam A stitch in the side slowed Britain's John Graham when he was in sight of running the world's fastest marathon at Rotterdam on Sunday. Graham, who clocked the fast time of 2hr 9min 28s, had 14 seconds in hand over Derek Clayton's world mark of 2:08:34 after covering 30km, but' skm later the stitch attacked him. “If it hadn’t been for the stitch I would have had the world
record,” the 24-year-old runner from Birmingham said after finishing the race. Commentators attributed the fast time to the mainly asphalt course and favourable weather, . with rain keeping the temperature down around 16 degrees. But no other runner could take advantage of these conditions to put up any real opposition to Graham, who won by almost smin from his compatriot, Stan Curran.
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Press, 26 May 1981, Page 24
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