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Hideo Hamamura

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Hideo Hamamura (born 20 July 1928) in Japan was a Japanese former marathon runner.

He won the Boston Marathon in 1955 in a time of 2:18.22 which was a course record. He was 16th in the 1956 Olympic Games marathon in Melbourne.

After retiring from competitive racing, he became an athletics coach.

He died on 10 May 2000 from a malignant tumour. [1]

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