Joasia Zakrzewski was disqualified after race officials learned she rode in a car for part of the race.
“The issue has been investigated and having reviewed the data from our race tracking system, GPX data, statements provided from our event team, other competitors and from the participant herself, we can confirm that a runner has now been disqualified from the event having taken vehicle transport during part of the route,” GB Ultras race director Wayne Drinkwater told theThe runner told the news organization that she entered the vehicle because she had been limping and wanted to tell marshals...
When Zakrzewski crossed the line she was given a medal and a third-place wooden trophy and posed for photographs, the“I was tired and jetlagged and felt sick,” said Zakrzewski, who added that she had flown in from Australia the night before the race. “I hold my hands up, I should have handed them back and not had pictures done but I was feeling unwell and spaced out and not thinking clearly.”
Zakrzewski won the 48-hour Taipei Ultramarathon in Taiwan in February, setting a world record across 255 miles, thereported. She won a silver medal in 2011 and bronze in 2014 and 2015 while competing for the United Kingdom in the IAU World 100-kilometer Championships, according to the news outlet.
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