Mexico City Marathon disqualifies 11,000 runners ‘who cheated course’
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ver a 3rd of the runners on the Mexico City Marathon have been disqualified after they minimize out sections of the course – however the runners have mentioned trackers have been defective.
Officials launched an investigation following complaints that some runners had used vehicles, public transport and bikes to cheat in the course of the 26.2-mile race on August 27.
Tracking knowledge then confirmed that hundreds of the contributors had not handed the 5km checkpoints that monitor if a runner has completed the occasion or not.
“The Mexico City Sports Institute informs that it will proceed to identify those cases in which participants of the XL Mexico City Marathon Telcel 2023 have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike attitude during the event and will invalidate their registration times,” the organisers mentioned in an announcement to Marca.
“This great event not only represents an outstanding celebration for all the inhabitants of the capital, but also an occasion to reaffirm the transcendental values of sport.”
Despite the disqualification, contributors informed Runners World that that they had not cheated however that the trackers have been defective and didn’t register at checkpoints.
The Mexico City Marathon is without doubt one of the most famed on this planet and expelled 6,000 runners in 2017 for dishonest.
None of the elite runners within the race are believed to have been expelled.