Canadian long-distance runner
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.[1][2]
Biography
In Blackpool, he had been a policeman.[3] He moved to Canada in 1981, and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[3]
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.[4][5]
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.[6][7] Edge won the silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the marathon, behind Australia's Robert de Castella.[3]
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.[8]
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