The 47-year-old is recognized for her 14th-place surface in the 2014 Commonwealth Games marathon
A popular British ultra-marathon runner has actually been handed a 12-month restriction by a UK Athletics corrective panel for using a car throughout a 50-mile race and consequently approving a third-place prize, reported The Guardian.
Joasia Zakrzewski confessed entering her good friend’s automobile throughout the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race on April 7 yet asserted that she did so just after notifying marshals of an injury that stopped her from proceeding the competitors.
Data from the radar at the GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool revealed that Zakrzewski, that stood for Scotland in the marathon at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, utilized a car for a 4km stretch of the race, Reuters reported.
The 47-year-old, recognized for her 14th-place surface in the 2014 Commonwealth Games marathon and a globe 48-hour range document of 255.668 miles embeded in February, preserved that she did not purposefully rip off. Instead, she connected her activities to jet lag from getting here in Australia the evening previously, bring about damaged judgment and the unintentional approval of a prize at the race’s final thought.
However, the description was turned down by a UKA corrective panel which has actually currently banned Ms Zakrzewski from completing in any type of UKA certified races, standing for Great Britain, or training or taking care of for a year, after discovering her guilty of breaching the UKA standard procedure for elderly professional athletes, The Guardian reported.
The Independent Disciplinary Panel of UK Athletics differed with her in their judgment.
“The claimant had collected the trophy at the end of the race, something which she should have not done if she was completing the race on a non-competitive basis,” they claimed.
“She also did not seek to return the trophy in the week following the race.”
