In July 2011 the success of a number of our athletes over the Marathon prompted club Chairman, Dave Parsons to search the archives to rediscover some previous BAC successes at the distance, read the article at the News Archives

All time marathon bests by Bournemouth Athletic Club members

Rank	Name	Sex	Venue	Month	Year	Time
1	Dave Long (ex BAC)	Male			1982	02:12:17
2	Chris Stewart	Male	New York and Fukuoka		1970/71	02:13:11
3	John Boyes	Male	Maassluis - Holland	April	1985	02:13:20
4	Barry Watson	Male	Rotherham		1976	02:15:06
5	Peter Russell	Male	Glasgow		1985	02:15:56
6	Brent Jones	Male - Jnr	London	April	1984	02:17:13
7	Roger Brown	Male	Sandbach		1976	02:17:20
8	Barry Heath	Male	Paris		1979	02:18:08
9	Steve Way	Male	London	April	2010	02:19:38
10	Mark Hargreaves	Male	London	April	1994	02:23:25
11	Larry Austin	Male	London	April	1990	02:23:50
12	Harold Chadwick	Male	London	April	1981	02:24:10
13	David Parsons	Male	London	April	1989	02:25:06
14	Billy Nixon	Male	London	April	1998	02:25:39
15	Terry Smith	Male	London	April	1987	02:25:50
16	Stuart Fox	Male	Berlin	September	2011	02:26:13
17	Des White	Male	London	April	1986	02:26:17
18	Duncan Hurdwell	Male	London	April	1998	02:26:57
19	Graham Moxham	Male	Berlin		1989	02:27:39
20	John Hurt	Male	Duchy of Cornwall		1982	02:28:06
21	Paul Hart	Male	London		1984	02:28:30
22	Ian Habgood	Male	London	April	2011	02:28:41
23	Steve Clarke	Male	London		1988	02:28
24	Chris Birch	Male	West Country		1983	02:30:37
25	Robin Copestick	Male	London	April	2009	02:30:58
26	Jon Sharkey	Male	London	April	2010	02:31:34
27	Tony Chutter	Male	London	April	1998	02:31:57
28	Mitch Mason	Male	New Forest			02:31
29	Andy Wedlake	Male	Chicago (B.A.A vest)	October	2003	02:32:33
30	Bill Pluck	Male				02:32
31	Jim Bailey	Male	Dhahran			02:32
32	Paul (Kiwi) Edmondson	Male	Poole			02:33:30
33	Nick Pepin	Male	New Forest			02:34
34	Terry Reen	Male	Harrow			02:35
35	Cedric North	Male	Southampton			02:36
36	Richard Morgan	Male	Barnsley			02:36
37	Roger Matthews	Male	London			02:36
38	Ian White	Male	London	April	2010	02:37:06
39	Michael Farrell	Male	London	April	1995	02:37:12
40	Ray Mcillmurray	Male	London	April	1995	02:37:16
41	Nick Kenchington	Male	London	April	1999	02:37:36
42	Dave Bird	Male	Florence	November	2009	02:38:34
43	Barry Smith	Male	London			02:39
44	John Bryan	Male	London		1997	02:42:26
45	Mike Hoey	Male	London	April	2006	02:44:14
46	Ian Head	Male	London			02:44:52
47	Ian Graham	Male	London	April	1990	02:45:33
48	Michael Jordan	Male	London	April	1996	02:45:44
49	Colin Fry	Male	Isle of Wight		1968/69	02:46
50	Simon Way	Male	Abingdon	October	2011	02:48:53
51	Terry Vincent	Male	London			02:48
52	Peter Brook	Male	London			02:50
53	Philip Mosley	Male	London	April	2009	02:52:48
54	Simon Hunt	Male	London	April	2006	02:53:58
55	Andrew Jennings	Male	New Forest	September	2010	02:55:30
56	Andrew Turner	Male	London	April	2004	02:55:46
57	Dave Higgins	Male	London			02:56:03
58	Juan Pedro Lopez Cascante (JP)	Male	London	April	2002	02:56:45
59	Paul Chapman	Male	London	April	2011	02:59:50
60	Jacek Cieluszecki	Male	Mauritius	June	2011	03:02:24
61	Graeme Miller	Male	London	April	2011	03:07:49
62	Stephanie Slade	Female	Nottingham	September	2010	03:09:07
63	Thomas Paskin	Male	Edinburgh	May	2010	03:10:50
64	Richard Nelson	Male	North Dorset	May	2011	03:15:36
65	David Mason	Male	London	April	2006	03:17:05
66	Michael Halpenny	Male	Dublin	October	2010	03:24:00
67	Janie Chapman	Female	London	April	2009	03:24:25
68	Andrew Gillespie	Male	London	April	2011	03:27:36
69	Chris Francis	Male	London	April	2009	03:28:18
70	Mike Cowham	Male	North Dorset	May	2011	03:29:54
71	Helen Ambrosen	Female	North Dorset	May	2011	03:34:25
72	Paul Consani	Male	London	April	2008	03:36:02
73	Howard Smith	Male	London	April	2007	03:48:17
74	Cherry Sheffrin	Female	North Dorset	May	2011	03:51:26
75	Peter Gaze	Male	London	April	2006	04:12:48
76	Matthew Kiernan	Male	London	April	2008	04:40:16