Dave Edge

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David Edge (born November 12, 1954, in Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom) is a former long-distance runner, who represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics in the men's marathon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sport.de/leichtathletik/pe863449/dave-edge/|title=Dave Edge|website=sport.de}}[http://bmaf.org.uk/magazines/Masters%20Athletics%20No%2092%20Summer%202010.pdf Masters Athletics 2010]

Biography

In Blackpool, he had been a policeman.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbM7DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Dave+Edge%22+blackpool+marathon&pg=PA41 | isbn=9780244940317 | title=The Complete Book of the Commonwealth Games | date=17 October 2017 | publisher=Lulu.com }} He moved to Canada in 1981, and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, he did not finish. Four years later in Seoul, South Korea he finished in 67th place.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ed/dave-edge-1.html |title=Dave Edge |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018023440/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ed/dave-edge-1.html |archive-date=2010-10-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/david-edge/|title=David Edge|date=September 18, 2011 }}

He is Jewish, and competed in the 1981 Maccabiah Games, winning a silver medal in the 10,000 m and a bronze medal in the mini-marathon, and in the 1989 Maccabiah Games.{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/cjn2-28862/page-6|title= August 13, 1981, page 6|work=The Canadian Jewish News}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.maccabiah.com/en/maccabiah/maccabiah-history/thirteenth-maccabiah|title=Thirteenth Maccabiah - Maccabiah 21|website=maccabiah.com}} Edge won the silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the marathon, behind Australia's Robert de Castella.

In 1984, he won the Ottawa Race Weekend marathon, and was the Canadian national marathon champion.

A resident of Newport Beach, California USA, Edge is married to Ireland's former long-distance runner Carey May.{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66029|title= Dave Edge|website=Olympedia}}

Achievements

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colspan="6"\|Representing {{CAN}}
1981 \|World Cross Country Championships \|Madrid \|182nd \|Senior men's race \|38:04
rowspan=2\|1982 \|Chicago Marathon \|Chicago \|4th \|Marathon \|2:12:25
Fukuoka Marathon \|Fukuoka \|7th \|Marathon \|2:12:40
rowspan=4\|1983 \|Boston Marathon \|Boston \|6th \|Marathon \|2:11:04
Australian Marathon \|Sydney \|3rd \|Marathon \|2:14:26
World Championships \|Helsinki \|24th \|Marathon \|2:15:43
Fukuoka Marathon \|Fukuoka \|8th \|Marathon \|2:11:48
rowspan=2\|1984 \|Ottawa Marathon \|Ottawa \|1st \|Marathon (NC) \|2:13:19
Olympic Games \|Los Angeles \|— \|Marathon \|DNF
1985 \|Grandma's Marathon \|Duluth \|2nd \|Marathon \|2:12:24
rowspan=3\|1986 \|Houston Marathon \|Houston \|2nd \|Marathon \|2:11:40
Commonwealth Games \|Edinburgh \|bgcolor="silver" \| 2nd \|Marathon \|2:11:08
Fukuoka Marathon \|Fukuoka \|8th \|Marathon \|2:12:26
1987 \|London Marathon \|London \|9th \|Marathon \|2:11:51
rowspan=2\|1988 \|London Marathon \|London \|17th \|Marathon \|2:14:10
Olympic Games \|Seoul \|67th \|Marathon \|2:32:19

colspan="6"|Representing {{CAN}}

1981

|World Cross Country Championships

|Madrid

|182nd

|Senior men's race

|38:04

rowspan=2|1982

|Chicago Marathon

|Chicago

|4th

|Marathon