A competitor at a marathon in China has received a lifetime ban from taking part in the race in future after she was caught cycling part of the course.
Still pictures uploaded in a video to YouTube show the woman, sporting the number D2113 on her vest, riding what appears to be a dockless hire bike.
Officials at the Xuzhou International Marathon, which had 22,000 participants, reportedly told her repeatedly to dismount but she ignored them, reports the Independent.
It still took her 5 hours, 38 minutes and 36 seconds to complete the marathon, although she is said to have covered the final 2.195 kilometres in 7 minutes 10 seconds.
Had she maintained that pace for the preceding 40 kilometres, she would have been around 12 minutes off Paula Radcliffe’s women’s marathon world record of 2 hours 15 minutes 25 seconds, set in London in 2003.
She was disqualified from the race and banned from all future events hosted by the organisers, who said: “After an official found her and stopped her, the participant again rode [on the bike]. She violated the rules.”




















5 thoughts on “Marathon runner gets lifetime ban – for riding bike on course”
For the love of god WHY would
For the love of god WHY would you get so close to the finish and then bo****ks it all up by doing that?
LarryDavidJr wrote:
To demonstrate to the world the superiority of the bicycle over feet?
Complete double standards!
Complete double standards!
You wouldn’t get banned from a cycle race for walking/running part of it.
HawkinsPeter wrote:
Outrageous! …Chris Froome … Mont Vontoux … 2016 … mumble, mumble …
If nothing else it shows how
If nothing else it shows how goddam fast Paula Radcliffe was. Someone fleeing from officials on a bike can’t go faster than her!