Hudspith studied at
Durham University. He achieved a personal best time of 2:11:58 in London on 2 April 1995. Hudspith represented
England and won the bronze medal in the
Marathon at the
1994 Commonwealth Games in
Victoria, Canada. At the time he was the first Briton to win a major championship medal in the marathon in 10 years, since
Charlie Spedding won bronze at the
1984 Olympics in
Los Angeles. Eight years later he represented England again at the
2002 Commonwealth Games. Hudspith was three-times
British marathon champion by virtue of being the highest placed British athlete in the London marathon and therefore taking the
AAA Championships title in 1998, 1999 and 2000. His brother
Ian Hudspith was also a notable athlete and was the British champion at the
1997 British Athletics Championships. == References ==