Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Men's marathon

The men's marathon event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 25 July in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ron Hill	England	2:09:28
	Jim Alder	Scotland	2:12:04
	Don Faircloth	England	2:12:19
4	Jack Foster	New Zealand	2:14:44
5	John Stephen Akhwari	Tanzania	2:15:05
6	Bill Adcocks	England	2:15:10
7	Alister Murray	Scotland	2:15:32
8	Donald MacGregor	Scotland	2:16:53
9	Michael Teer	Northern Ireland	2:17:24
10	Andrew Boychuk	Canada	2:18:45
11	Michael Rowland	Wales	2:19:08
12	Cyril Leigh	Wales	2:19:53
13	Martin Cranny	Northern Ireland	2:20:23
14	Robert Moore	Canada	2:20:47
15	Philip Ndoo	Kenya	2:22:40
16	Harnek Singh	India	2:23:12
17	Dai Davies	Wales	2:23:29
18	Jeff Julian	New Zealand	2:24:03
19	Dhavamrai Biredar	India	2:29:18
20	Douglas Zinkala	Zambia	2:30:02
21	Fulgenge Rwabu	Uganda	2:34:15
22	Kenneth Grant	Gibraltar	2:35:55
23	Reuben Dlamini	Swaziland	2:49:33
24	Sergio Acecio	Gibraltar	2:50:39
	Derek Clayton	Australia	DNF
	Jerome Drayton	Canada	DNF
	Anthony Parody	Gibraltar	DNF
	Harry Prowell	Guyana	DNF
	Jagbir Singh	India	DNF
	Daniel Kalusa	Zambia	DNF
	Allieu Massaquoi	Sierra Leone	DNS
	Richard Mabuza	Swaziland	DNS