News & notes: Same-year winners of World Marathon Majors races

When Martin Lel won the 2007 ING New York City Marathon on November 4 he also became the first man in history to win the Flora London Marathon and ING New York City Marathon in the same year.

Two women – Grete Waitz and Wanda Panfil – had also won London-New York City calendar year doubles with Waitz accomplishing it in both 1983 and 1986.

Women have scored doubles in each of the six possible spring-fall Big City marathon combinations. However there have been no same-year doublers for men at Boston-Berlin, and London-Berlin.

Waitz is the queen of the same-year multi-winners. In her remarkable 1983 campaign, besides London and New York she took the World Championships gold medal that summer. She is the only marathoner, male or female, to win three majors in one year. – Marty Post
Same year winners of World Marathon Majors:

Boston – Berlin

Men
none
Women
1995 – Uta Pippig (GER)

Boston – Chicago

Men
2006 – Robert K. Cheruiyot (KEN)
Women
1986 – Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)
2000 – Catherine Ndereba (KEN)
2001 – Catherine Ndereba (KEN)
2003 – Svetlana Zakharova (RUS)

Boston – New York City

Men
1978 – Bill Rodgers (USA)
1979 – Bill Rodgers (USA)
1981 – Alberto Salazar (USA)
1999 – Joseph Chebet (KEN)
2002 – Rodgers Rop (KEN)
Women
1972 – Nina Kuscsik (USA)
1977 – Miki Gorman (USA)
1981 – Allison Roe (NZL)
1989 – Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)

London – Berlin

Men
none
Women
1994 РKatrin Dörre (GER)

London – Chicago

Men
1985 – Steve Jones (GBR)
1986 – Steve Jones (GBR)
2002 – Khalid Khannouchi (USA)
2004 – Evans Rutto (KEN)
Women
1999 – Joyce Chepchumba (KEN)
2002 – Paula Radcliffe (GBR)

London – New York City

Men
2007 – Martin Lel (KEN)
Women
1983 – Grete Waitz (NOR)
1986 – Grete Waitz (NOR)
1990 – Wanda Panfil (POL)