Bob Wallace (June 21, 1951 – July 21, 2020)[1] was a runner from Croydon, Victoria, Australia.
Wallace went to the University of Texas-El Paso where he was a distance runner for the track team under coach Ted Banks,[2] and was the Western Athletic Conference Champion in the 3 mile and steeplechase in 1974.
[4] In June 1981 he missed the Boston Marathon due to injury but he finished third in the Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota to Dick Beardsley and Garry Bjorklund, where he ran his lifetime personal best of 2:13:14.
[2] In April 1982, Wallace came in ninth in the Boston Marathon (2:17:18), a race famously known as the Duel in the Sun.
[2][4] Later that year he moved back to Australia and in July he again won the Australian Marathon Championship (2:16:02) in Brisbane, being the first Australian across the finish line although he finished second to Fumiaki Abe.