The1989London Marathon was the ninth running of the annualmarathon race inLondon, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 23 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenya'sDouglas Wakiihuri in a time of 2:09:03 hours and the women's race was won by home athleteVéronique Marot in 2:25:56. Marot's time was aBritish national record, which stood for 13 years beforePaula Radcliffe improved it with a world record at the2002 London Marathon.^[1]

In thewheelchair races, British athletesDavid Holding (1:59:31) andJosie Cichockyj (3:03:54) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time an athlete completed the wheelchair marathon in under two hours.^[2]

Around 72,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 31,772 had their applications accepted and 24,452 started the race. A total of 22,701 runners finished the race.^[3]

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Douglas Wakiihuri	Kenya	2:09:03
	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:09:06
	Hussein Ahmed Salah	Djibouti	2:09:09
4	Manuel Matias	Portugal	2:09:43
5	Suleiman Nyambui	Tanzania	2:09:52
6	Tony Milovsorov	United Kingdom	2:09:54
7	Pat Petersen	United States	2:10:04
8	Wodajo Bulti	Ethiopia	2:10:32
9	Takao Nakamura	Japan	2:11:51
10	Zhang Guowei	China	2:12:03
11	Michael O'Reilly	United Kingdom	2:12:16
12	John Wheway	United Kingdom	2:12:22
13	Allister Hutton	United Kingdom	2:12:47
14	Tefera Guta	Ethiopia	2:12:49
15	Kenneth Stuart	United Kingdom	2:12:53
16	Jose Carlos da Silva	Brazil	2:12:57
17	Allan Zachariasen	Denmark	2:13:15
18	Peter Maher	Canada	2:13:25
19	Kevin Forster	United Kingdom	2:13:31
20	John Andrew Boyes	United Kingdom	2:13:45
21	Peter Dall	Denmark	2:14:25
22	Giuseppe Denti	Italy	2:14:29
23	Bjorn Sivertsen	Denmark	2:14:33
24	Igor Braslavskiy	Soviet Union	2:14:38
25	Yuri Porotov	Soviet Union	2:15:10

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Véronique Marot	United Kingdom	2:25:56
	Wanda Panfil	Poland	2:27:05
	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	2:28:11
4	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	2:29:34
5	Raisa Smekhnova	Soviet Union	2:30:15
6	Evy Palm	Sweden	2:31:05
7	Angie Hulley	United Kingdom	2:31:06
8	Lynn Harding	United Kingdom	2:31:45
9	Charlotte Teske	West Germany	2:32:34
10	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	2:32:50
11	Sheila Catford	United Kingdom	2:33:04
12	Sally Ellis	United Kingdom	2:33:24
13	Krystyna Chylińska	Poland	2:33:46
14	Jill Clarke Harrison	United Kingdom	2:34:19
15	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	2:35:01
16	Sandra Branney	United Kingdom	2:35:03
17	Rosemary Ellis	United Kingdom	2:35:32
18	Marina Samy	United Kingdom	2:36:32
19	Maria Polyzou	Greece	2:37:03
20	Dominique Rembert	France	2:37:04
21	Małgorzata Birbach	Poland	2:37:08
22	Nicola Morris	United Kingdom	2:38:21
23	Lyubov Klochko	Soviet Union	2:38:22
24	Christine Kennedy	Ireland	2:39:13
25	Ewa Szydlowska	Poland	2:39:21

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	David Holding	United Kingdom	1:59:31
	Ted Vince	Canada	1:59:32
	Chris Hallam	United Kingdom	1:59:33
4	Scott Paterson	Canada	1:59:39
5	Lex de Turck	Netherlands	2:08:12
6	Andy Haynes	United Kingdom	2:09:55
7	Ian Thompson	United Kingdom	2:11:24
8	Ivan Newman	United Kingdom	2:16:30
9	Kevin Breen	Ireland	2:16:35
10	Kevin Doran	United Kingdom	2:22:04

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Josie Cichockyj	United Kingdom	3:03:54
—	Karen Davidson	United Kingdom	DNF	–	Karen Davidson	United Kingdom	DNF

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