As many as 11,000 people were reportedly disqualified for cheating at the Mexico Marathon. Some of them are said to have used public transportation and private vehicles during the marathon.
BEFORE THE START: This is what it looks like before the start of the Mexican Marathon. Many of them started to be disqualified after cheating.
According to Mexican media, thousands of people who registered have not been able to register at checkpoints on the trail every five kilometers. W Sports. There were 30,000 entries, so more than a third of the participants would have been disqualified.
Mexican newspaper Notes wrote, some participants definitely used public transportation or private vehicles to shorten the distance. The organizer has gold accreditation from World AthleticsWorld AthleticsInternational Athletics Federation. Gold accreditation is the next best status that can be obtained from World Athletics. The top event has platinum status.
– We will continue to investigate and identify cases in which Mexican Marathon participants demonstrated such unsportsmanlike behavior during the event that their registration times were invalid, organizers wrote in a statement.
This is the 40th anniversary of the marathon in Mexico. This isn’t the first time people have tried to cheat. In 2017, about 6,000 participants were disqualified, about 20 percent of those in attendance. The following year, another 3,000 participants were disqualified, he wrote Daily Mail.
Hector Garibay of Bolivia won this year’s men’s marathon in a time of 2.08.23. Celestine Chepchirchir of Kenya won the women’s marathon on 2/27/17.
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