Martin Dent (8 February 1979 in

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, UK) is an English-born

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n Olympian marathon runner, who ran at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ...

. He made his season best time of 2 hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds in the

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ...

in 28th place. Dent attended Berkeley Vale Community High School on the Central Coast of New South Wales. This is the same school that produced Australia Rugby Union Wallaby star

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, Scottish and British Lions player

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and NRL player and Wests Tigers Assistant Coach Paul Stringer. Dent currently holds the record for the fastest time on

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's Kepler_Challenge.

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Martin Dent at IAAF
Living people 1979 births Australian male marathon runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Australia World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Sportspeople from Woking {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub