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48 runners banned after cheating marathon
By Zhang Xuanchen |
June 3, 2010, Thursday
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FORTY-EIGHT runners who cheated in the 2010 Xiamen International Marathon received a two-year ban and were named on the Website of the Chinese Athletics Association today.
Dongfang High School and Jinan Sports Training Center in east China's Shandong Province, where many cheaters attended, were banned for one year from taking part in any race hosted, recorded or approved by the association.
The runners were found to have hired imposters, taken shortcuts, ridden vehicles or given their time-recording microchips to faster runners during the three-hour event on January 2 in the southeastern port city in Fujian Province, reported China Youth Daily today.
Authorities investigated after an online video clip showed some runners passed their microchips to others so that one runner would register two or more results on passing the finishing line.
Within two seconds, 11 results were recorded but only six runners passed the line.
More than 30 competitors who ranked in the top 100 of the men's race had their results and rankings cancelled on January 21.
The motivation, suggested the paper, was to gain extra credits for the college entrance exams as most of the runners were high school students, and their recorded times were less than 2 hours 34 minutes, the minimum needed for extra scores.
Authorities said they will beef up the monitoring system by adding judges and surveillance cameras on the course. There are only around 200 judges to monitor the 50,000 runners.
Also on the blacklist were 13 runners of the Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half-marathon in neighboring Jiangsu Province on April 25 and two players of the Yellow River Estuary International Marathon in Shandong Province on May 15.
Their results were cancelled and they were banned from races for two years.
Six runners in last year's Shanghai International Marathon had their results annulled for cheating.
Dongfang High School and Jinan Sports Training Center in east China's Shandong Province, where many cheaters attended, were banned for one year from taking part in any race hosted, recorded or approved by the association.
The runners were found to have hired imposters, taken shortcuts, ridden vehicles or given their time-recording microchips to faster runners during the three-hour event on January 2 in the southeastern port city in Fujian Province, reported China Youth Daily today.
Authorities investigated after an online video clip showed some runners passed their microchips to others so that one runner would register two or more results on passing the finishing line.
Within two seconds, 11 results were recorded but only six runners passed the line.
More than 30 competitors who ranked in the top 100 of the men's race had their results and rankings cancelled on January 21.
The motivation, suggested the paper, was to gain extra credits for the college entrance exams as most of the runners were high school students, and their recorded times were less than 2 hours 34 minutes, the minimum needed for extra scores.
Authorities said they will beef up the monitoring system by adding judges and surveillance cameras on the course. There are only around 200 judges to monitor the 50,000 runners.
Also on the blacklist were 13 runners of the Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half-marathon in neighboring Jiangsu Province on April 25 and two players of the Yellow River Estuary International Marathon in Shandong Province on May 15.
Their results were cancelled and they were banned from races for two years.
Six runners in last year's Shanghai International Marathon had their results annulled for cheating.
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