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}} Ronald "Ron" Hill MBE (born 25 September 1938) is an English runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, but never laid claim to the marathon world record. He has run two Olympic Marathons (Tokyo 1964 and Munich 1972), and has a personal marathon record of 2:09:28.〔 In 1970, Hill won the 74th Boston Marathon in a course record 2:10:30. He also won gold medals for the marathon at the European Championships in 1969 and the Commonwealth Games in 1970. ==Running career== Hill held world records for (47:02, Leicester, April 1968; 46:44, Leicester, November 1968); (72:48.2, Bolton, July 1965); and 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) (75:22.6, Bolton, July 1965). In 1963, Hill won the event at the British Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) championships in a time of 27:49.8, equalling the UK record. In the following year's AAA six mile (10 km) race, Hill was outsprinted by Mike Bullivant, who won by less than half a second; both runners, however, finished more than twenty seconds under the UK record. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Hill placed 18th in the 10000 metres, in a time of 29:53.0, and 19th in the marathon, in 2:25:34.4.〔(Ron Hill ). sports-reference.com〕 In 1964, Hill set his first world record, clocking 1:15:22.6 for , eclipsing Emil Zátopek's previous mark by more than 1 minute; he also set another world record of 1:12:48.2 for along the way. Hill was the first winner of the Freckleton Half Marathon in 1964 and still holds the course record of 1 hour 4 minutes. In 1966, Hill competed in the European Championships Marathon, finishing twelfth. On 6 April 1968, in the British AAA championship at Leicester, Hill set a new world record of 47:02.2; he won the AAA every year between 1965 and 1969. Later in 1968, he again lowered the world world record, to 46:44.0. In the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, he placed seventh in the 10000 m.〔 In 1969, Hill won the European Championships Marathon on the Marathon-to-Athens course. In 1970, Hill became the first British runner to win the Boston Marathon, by a wide margin, shattering the course record by three minutes with a time of 2:10:30. In July, at the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he became the second man ever to break the 2:10 barrier, clocking a world record time of 2:09:28. Hill was timed in 29:24 for the first at Edinburgh, the equivalent of a 2:04 marathon pace, described as "suicidal".〔(Ron Hill ). time-to-run.com. 31 December 2006.〕 He arrived at the Fukuoka Marathon as a clear favourite, but placed only ninth.〔K. Ken Nakamura. (A history of the Fukuoka International Marathon Championships ). iaaf.org〕 Hill was ranked as the top marathoner of the year for 1970 by ''Track & Field News'', on the strength of his two important wins – the Boston and British Commonwealth Games marathons. The next year, Hill was honoured with the Order of the British Empire for "services to athletics". His final Olympic games was at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where he finished sixth in the marathon at the age of 33.〔 Hill was the winner of first China Coast Marathon and Half Marathon (CCM), held in Hong Kong in 1981, with the result of 2:34:35. He described it as "the toughest marathon he'd run".〔(Gammon Construction China Coast Marathon and Half Marathon ), Athlete Veterans of Hong Kong Official Site〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ron Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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