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Kirk Pfeffer
Personal information
Pfeffer winning the Enschede Marathon in 1979
Born	July 30, 1956 (1956-07-30) (age 68)
Sport
Sport	Long-distance running

Kirk Pfeffer (born July 30, 1956 in California^[1]) is a retired American long-distance runner, who competed in marathons. He won the Enschede Marathon in 1979 in 2:11:50 and America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1981 in 1:02:55. On December 7, 1979 he set a new world record in the half marathon at 1:02:32 in Las Vegas.^[2] Next year he ran his best marathon time of 2:10:29 in Fukuoka, which placed him tenth in the World Marathon Rankings for 1980.^[3]

Five years before that, he set a world junior record of 2:17:44 in the old Mission Bay Marathon in San Diego.[4]

In the 1979 New York City Marathon, Pfeffer led the field until 23 1/2 miles when he was passed by Bill Rodgers in Central Park. Rodgers won in 2:11:42, and Pfeffer held on for second place, finishing about 500 yards behind with a time of 2:13:08. In the 1983 New York City Marathon he finished 13th in 2:12:20, his last world-class performance at a major marathon.

References

^ Kirk Pfeffer. all-athletics.com
^ World Best Progressions- Road. arrs.run
^ World Marathon Rankings for 1980. arrs.run

4. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-24-sp-14817-story.html

Enschede Marathon – men's 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: Dmitry 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 Cherogony (KEN)
2008: Silas Toek (KEN)
2009: Jacob Kipchumba Yator (KEN)
2010: John Kelai (KEN)
2011: Stephen Kiprotich (UGA)
2012: Ishhimael Busendich (KEN)
2013: Isaac Kosgei (KEN)
2014: Elijah Sang (KEN)
2015: Evans Cheruiyot (KEN)
2016: David Stevens (BEL)
2017: Jonas Roels (BEL)
2018: Mohamed Oumaarir (MAR)
2019: Geart Jorritsma (NED)
2020: cancelled
2021: Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)
2022: Julius Tuwei (KEN)

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