Mexico Marathon disqualifies 11,000 of their 30,000 runners after discovering THOUSANDS cheated, together with utilizing vehicles and public transport mid-race, by investigating their digital trackers

Organisers of the Mexico Marathon have reportedly disqualified 11,000 runners after digital trackers revealed the individuals had not accomplished the complete course.

Over 30,000 runners participated on the fortieth anniversary version of the race in Mexico Metropolis on August 27.

Mexico Marathon organisers had been pressured to research nameless complaints from individuals post-race.

Complaints alleged hundreds runners had not accomplished the complete distance, in line with Marca.

Runners had been accused of utilizing automobiles and public transport through the race to shorten the 26.22 mile course.

The Mexico Marathon reportedly disqualified 11,000 runners for failing to complete the course

Over 30,000 runners took to the beginning of the fortieth version of the marathon on August 27

An investigation utilizing knowledge from the runner’s digital trackers reportedly revealed that hundreds had not handed via test factors on the route. 

The Mexico Metropolis Sports activities Institute confirmed it had launched an investigation into the state of affairs.   

‘The Mexico Metropolis Sports activities Institute informs that it’s going to proceed to establish these instances through which individuals of the XL Mexico Metropolis Marathon Telcel 2023 have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike perspective through the occasion and can invalidate their registration instances,’ the assertion learn.

‘This nice occasion not solely represents an impressive celebration for all of the inhabitants of the capital, but additionally an event to reaffirm the transcendental values of sport.’

A number of runners have reportedly claimed that their digital tracker had not labored correctly, resulting in their instances not being recorded precisely as they handed via test factors.

It’s not the primary time the Mexico Marathon has been pressured to disqualify runners for dishonest.

Almost 6,000 runners had been disqualified within the 2017 race, with 20 per cent of the sphere failing to finish the complete course.

Organisers annulled the outcomes of an extra 3,090 runners following the 2018 race.

Organiers found hundreds failed to finish the course after analyzing monitoring knowledge

The Mexico Marathon holds World Athletics Gold Label Standing, the second highest standing awarded to highway operating occasions by the governing physique.

Organisers say the standing highlights the occasions ‘high quality and professionalism’ in Latin America.

This 12 months’s males’s elite race was gained by Bolivia’s Hector Garibay in a time of two:08:23, whereas Celestine Chepchirchir of Kenya triumphed within the girls’s in 2:27:17.

All finishers on the Mexico Marathon obtain a medal, which this 12 months included Mexico Metropolis’s Latin American Tower on it design.