How resourceful runner cheating in Marathons

This impostor has amazed a few years ago at Zurich, Marathon : As smooth shaven marathon runner, a man is started, four hours later, he ran with a full beard in the target. The man had not but grew to an immensely quick beard, but two runners, the 42.195 kilometres was shared, to a name a quick period of time. The first half ran the beardless, the second of the beard. As a kind of camouflage were you wearing a Basketballkäppli, to no avail. Other runners noticed the unfair Goings-on and reported the "Bschiss" the organizer Bruno Lafranchi. This compared the pictures at the Start and finish and decided to: Because it is fake.

Lafranchi himself is a former top runners, has founded the Zurich Marathon in 2002 and up to the edition in 2018 and also organized the first Marathon without him as the organizer starts this coming Sunday. Why runners are cheating, he can't understand for personal reasons he can only guess. "You want to reach a time below a certain threshold: 3 hours, 3 hours 30 or 4 hours to run." Or to appear better than they are effective.

The shortcut through the toilet cottage

The beard swindler, is only one of various attempts by runners to achieve a faster time. For example, since the S-Bahn-Fiddler was: A participant has chosen to ride the route along the lake back to Zurich by train, instead of walking. Which S-Bahn he used, does not reveal Lafranchi. He wants to give potential copycats.

another marathon runner, cut very classic. He ran up to miles, but returned earlier. He flew, because he is taking within happened a automatic time of one Minute, twice. This was the time blades, as he should have been the route for much longer. The runner was but not wrong. His excuse: He was, conversely, because he had left his sunglasses on the sidelines and wanted to get.

Then there was the toilet-tricksters. One participant attended on the parade ground of the toilet, left it but on the other side and saved a few Hundred meters. He also flew on.

Many imposter has transferred Lafranchi in his time as the organizer of the marathon, because he had to compare the section times. Confronted with the facts, tried to take over the runner, mostly out of coaxing. It was often very embarrassing. In order to keep the shame in the borders, they wanted to exile them from the rank list, in order not to be as Disqualified. However, Lafranchi showed no mercy. On the contrary, "Whoever does such a thing, belongs to the pillory." As you can see today on the old ranking list, who may have cheated. Many, however, are not: in 2018, were disqualified 7 of 1830 men and 2 out of 427 women, in 2016 there were 6 of 1834 men and 3 out of 349 women.

turned himself

"The majority of people are honest," says then runner legend Lafranchi. For example, a participant had volunteered from the rank list because of a mishap happened. He was in the medical tent, bandage, then took the wrong exit and was thus a part of the track. The man realized this, but only in the target, when he heard his time. He noted: There must be something wrong.

internationally, there are several spectacular cases of Marathon cheating. As a leisure detective has made Derek Murphy is a name, because he is investigating rankings and segment times between runs. Its most sensational revelations: The Mexico Marathon, he was able to demonstrate far more than 5000 of the 28'000 runners, that they had cheated. Many had obviously missed the first few kilometres, and are only entered later into the race. The majority of the Catch was only the medal in view had, because a year and running an award comes in the Form of a letter of the marathon.

but There are also spectacular individual cases, such As Rosie Ruiz in 1980, was as the winner of the Boston marathon a celebration – up came out, that was only the last few Hundred meters running in, and then pumped out for your world-class time to celebrate let. She had already been lying at the New York Marathon speed, where you'd put a part of the trail with the U-Bahn back. An Ultra-Marathon of over 55 kilometres in South Africa two brothers exchanged in a toilet, the gowns, the second runner a ran ninth. Photos entered for the two, however: they had worn joints, hours a different hand.

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Created: 26.04.2019, 11:05 PM