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Kevin John Forster (born September 27, 1958 in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham) is a retired long-distance runner from England. He represented Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, finishing in 33rd place and was the fastest English marathon runner of 1988. Forster won the Enschede the Toronto Marathon and the Stockholm Marathon during his career and had two silver medals from the London Marathon (1984, 2h 11min 41s and 1988, 2h 10min 52s).He was also a member of the England Cross Country teams competing in the World Cross Country Championships through the 1980s, winning silver team medals in 1982 (Rome) and 1987 (Warsaw). Forster won an individual silver medal in the 1987 European Club championships (Clusone, Milan).

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Enschede Men's Marathon Winners

1947: Eero Riikonen (FIN) • 1949: Jack Holden (ENG) • 1951: Veikko Karvonen (FIN) • 1953: Jim Peters (ENG) • 1955: Reinaldo Gorno (ARG) • 1957: Piet Bleeker (NED) • 1959: Pavel Kantorek (TCH) • 1961: Peter Wilkinson (GBR) • 1963: Václav Chudomel (TCH) • 1965: Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) • 1967: Yoshiro Mifune (JPN) • 1969: Kazuo Matsubara (JPN) • 1971: Bernie Allen (ENG) • 1973 – 1975: Ron Hill (ENG) • 1977: Brian Maxwell (CAN) • 1979: Kirk Pfeffer (USA) • 1981: Cor Vriend (NED) • 1983: Kevin Forster (GBR) • 1985: Zoltan Köszegi (HUN) • 1987 – 1989: Marti ten Kate (NED) • 1991: Sergey Prorokov (URS) • 1992: Willie Mtolo (RSA) • 1993: Jan Tau (RSA) • 1994: Piotr Poblocki (POL) • 1995: Viktor Goural (UKR) • 1996: John Mandu (KEN) • 1997: Dmitriy Kapitonov (RUS) • 1998: Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI) • 1999: Anatoli Zerouk (UKR) • 2000: Cancelled • 2001: El Mustapha Riad (MAR) • 2002: Raymond Kipkoech (KEN) • 2003: Wilson Kibet (KEN) • 2004: Girma Tolla (ETH) • 2005: John Kelai (KEN) • 2006: Sammy Rotich (KEN) • 2007: Thomson Cherognoy (KEN) • 2008: Silas Toek (KEN); • 2009: Jacob Kipchumba Yator (KEN)

Stockholm Men's Marathon Winners

1979: Jukka Toivola (FIN) • 1980: Jeff Wells (USA) • 1981: Bill Rodgers (USA) • 1982: Kjell-Erik Ståhl (SWE) • 1983: Hugh Jones (GBR) • 1984: Agapius Masong (TAN) • 1985: Tommy Persson (SWE) • 1986: Kjell-Erik Ståhl (SWE) • 1987: Kevin Forster (GBR) • 1988: Suleiman Nyambui (TAN) • 1989: Dave Clarke (GBR) • 1990: Simon Robert Naali (TAN) • 1991: Åke Eriksson (SWE) • 1992: Hugh Jones (GBR) • 1993: Daniel Mbuli (RSA) • 1994: Tesfaye Bekele (ETH) • 1995: Åke Eriksson (SWE) • 1996: Tesfaye Bekele (ETH) • 1997: Benson Masya (KEN) • 1998: Martin Ojuko (KEN) • 1999 – 2000: Alfred Shemweta (SWE) • 2001: Anders Szalkai (SWE) • 2002: My Tahar Echchadli (MAR) • 2003: Josphat Chemjor (KEN) • 2004: Joseph Riri (KEN) • 2005: Kasirai Sita (ZIM) • 2006 – 2007: Philip Bandawe (ZIM) • 2008: Willy Korir (KEN)

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