Need help - 1986 Boston results

Are you looking for a particular runner or trying to see how many broke a certain time? Derderian's book would help -- I can look something up if you need but I can't type fast or well enough to list 50 runners and times.

1.) de Castella - 2:07:51

2.) Boileau - 2:11:15

3.) Pizzolato - 2:11:43

4.) Rodgers - 2:13:36

5.) Barrios - 2:14:09

6.) Hodge - 2:14:50

7.) Tibaduiza - 2:15:22

8.) Cummings - 2:16:05

9.) Schlesinger - 2:16:29

10.) Ito - 2:17:02

11.) Tiainen - 2:17:04

12.) Meyer - 2:17:29

13.) Nagashima - 2:17:38

14.) Huggins - 2:18:11

15.) Doyle - 2:19:03

16.) Hurd - 2:19:04

17.) Fieldsend - 2:19:19

18.) Patterson - 2:21:14

19.) Johnsen - 2:21:19

20.) Cusack - 2:21:24

21.) Liuttu - 2:22:12

22.) McGovern - 2:22:18

23.) Bossardet - 2:22:29

24.) Kanfer - 2:22:42

25.) Lopez - 2:22:42

26.) Hewes - 2:23:16

27.) Carl - 2:23:17

28.) Molloy - 2:23:27

29.) Skinkle - 2:23:59

30.) Coyne - 2:24:06

source: Derderian - Boston Marathon

Thanks to both for the help.

Without being a total pain, do you have access to the name of the runner(s) who ran 2:25 that year?

I need to verify for an upcoming marathon for press release.

Thanks again !!

The course was .7 short that year.

Fact wrote:

The course was .7 short that year.

Actually the course was dead on accurate that year. It was one of the first years using certification process like they have today with bikes and an early version of the Jones-Oerth counter.

Boston Blitz wrote:

Thanks to both for the help.

Without being a total pain, do you have access to the name of the runner(s) who ran 2:25 that year?

I need to verify for an upcoming marathon for press release.

Thanks again !!

30. D. Coyne NY 2:24:06

31. B. MacGillivray CAN 2:24:09

32. S. Molnar PA 2:24:15

33. M. Whelan NY 2:24:27

34. J. Flores TX 2:24:32

35. J. Sheridan Ireland 2:24:35 (2nd master)

36. T. Augat Ill 2:24:43

37. R. Bieber PA 2:24:44

38. L. Roberts England 2:24:59 (3rd master)

39. M. Slavin MA 2:25:16

40. J. Sipploa VA 2:25:46

41. M. Meyers WI 2:26:16

42. H. Chavez Mex 2:26:34

That'll do it, thanks.

Paper: Boston Globe

Title: A DULL START FOR BAA'S NEW FINISH

Date: April 3, 1986

They held a news conference yesterday to announce where the Boston Marathon's new finish line will be located April 21. The details were as exciting as watching paint dry.

In fact, the media gathered at the Copley Plaza Hotel did get to watch paint dry when Francis L. Swift, president of the Boston Athletic Association, and William Bogan, executive vice president of John Hancock, stepped onto Boylston Street and began painting a high yellow line between the old and new sections of the Boston Public Library on Boylston Street, where the Marathon finish line will be located.

The runners will finish in the shadow of the John Hancock Tower, the headquarters for the Marathon's new corporate sponsor. In order to move the finish line about 300 yards down Boylston Street from its previous location at Prudential Center, the race's starting line in Hopkinton was moved up about 35 yards and an additional 285 yards were gained by closing a loop at Route 135 in Ashland.

The Athletics Congress certified the altered Boston Marathon course in March after it was remeasured and approved by three TAC officials -- John McGrath, David Catz and Gabriel Duguay.

BAA officials Len Luchner and Guy Morse said the changes in the course are so minor, there is no need to declare it a new course for the establishing records.

Morse noted that the race will conclude with a 600-yard straightaway from Hereford Street to the tape "and will be especially advantageous from a spectator's standpoint if there's a close finish." He said that as the runners complete the race, they will be guided through timing chutes where they will be given medals, blankets, water and food. Runners requiring medical attention will be taken to a Copley Square medical tent.

Against a backdrop of Marathon charts and sketches, David D'Alessandro, Hancock senior vice president of corporate communications, spoke in glowing terms about how the new finish area will assume a festive atmosphere with giant balloons and a DiamondVision screen on Dartmouth Street.

"We'll have a grandstand seating area along Boylston Street that will hold about 1,400 people, and bleachers in front of a DiamondVision screen will seat another 450," D'Alessandro said. "They will be occupied by invited guests from Greater Boston communities. We estimate that during the race, Copley Square will be filled with some 6,000 spectators, race officials, volunteers and media people. There will be only standing room for the public."

Paul Barrett, Mayor Flynn's consultant on Marathon matters, said that the Copley Square area will be secure, "and that for the first time, the Marathon will finish on public property."

D'Alessandro also said that in order for Hancock to provide the US Olympic Committee with the liability insurance it needs in return for the committee's designation of the Boston Marathon as a 1988 Olympic Trial, the Marathon must continue to be held as a single race only on a Monday.

As a climax to the news conference, Flynn was supposed to make a surprise appearance for the benefit of photographers and cross the finish line painted by Swift and Bogan.

Flynn did surprise everyone. He failed to show up. Which only goes to show that His Honor meant it when he said he intends to lower his media profile.

Copyright 1986, 1998 Globe Newspaper Company

Author: Neil Singelais, Globe Staff

Section: SPORTS

Page: 35

Copyright 1986, 1998 Globe Newspaper Company

Does someone on here still have the book with results?