David Edge (born November 12, 1954, in Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom) is a former long-distance runner, who represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics in the men's marathon.

Biography

In Blackpool, he had been a policeman. He moved to Canada in 1981, and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, he did not finish. Four years later in Seoul, South Korea he finished in 67th place. He is Jewish, and competed in the 1981 Maccabiah Games, winning a silver medal in the 10,000 m and a bronze medal in the mini-marathon, and in the 1989 Maccabiah Games. Edge won the silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the marathon, behind Australia's Robert de Castella. In 1984, he won the Ottawa Race Weekend marathon, and was the Canadian national marathon champion. A resident of Newport Beach, California USA, Edge is married to Ireland's former long-distance runner Carey May.

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