Last Updated: November 16, 2023, 00:01 IST
Long distance runner Joasia Zakrzewski was banned for 12 months by a UK athletics disciplinary physique on Wednesday for driving a automotive throughout a 50-mile race in April and accepting third place.
Data from the monitoring system on the GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool confirmed that Zakrzewski, who represented Scotland within the marathon on the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, used a automotive for a 4km stretch of the race.
The 47-12 months-previous, who was stripped of her third place, claimed she had knowledgeable race officers about having been in a automotive and completed the race “in a non-competitive way”.
The Independent Disciplinary Panel of UK Athletics disagreed along with her of their verdict.
“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 stated.
“She also did not seek to return the trophy in the week following the race.”
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