Sport
Tributes Pour in Following Death of Legendary Distance Runner
Brenda Walker passes away aged 67
The island’s leading female distance runner of the late 20th century has died.
Brenda Walker had been receiving hospital treatment since November and passed away in Hospice Isle of Man on Saturday morning (23 March) at the age of 67.
Brenda was the first Manx athlete to win the women’s title at the Easter Athletics Festival in 1992 when she was a member of Western AC.
Until fairly recently she almost had a monopoly of the middle-to-long distance road running records and is still the Isle of Man marathon record holder with her time of 2hr 39min 36sec set in Rotterdam in 1993.
She also holds the 20-mile record with 2:00:01, which was a split time in that same race, and the record for five miles with 28m 58s in 1991.
Extremely popular and ever-modest, a lengthier tribute will be paid to her in this week’s Manx Independent.
