London (CNN)The organizers of a marathon successful confederate England person apologized aft the people for Sunday's contention was much than 500 meters (1,640 feet) excessively long.
The Brighton Marathon returned to the streets of the coastal metropolis aft a pandemic-enforced break, but participants were forced to tally further than the regularisation 26.2 miles.
"We would similar to apologise to our marathon participants that the people contiguous has measured 568m excessively long," the organizers said connected Twitter.
"We are wholly disappointed that this has affected our runners & anticipation that it hasn't marred the experience, astatine what has been a fantastic comeback aft lawsuit aft 18 months."
Neil McClements won the contention with a clip of 2:33:44, with Ollie Garrod successful 2nd with a clip of 2:34:01.
McClements overtook Garrod successful the past 200 meters, sparking statement connected Twitter.
"The runner who led each the mode was caught with 200m to go. So basically, helium was winning astatine the accepted marathon decorativeness point," tweeted 1 user.
Event manager Tom Naylor explained the mistake successful a connection published Monday.
"Despite the marathon way being measured correctly successful the lead-up to contention start, a basal quality mistake successful laying retired a cone enactment meant that the last marathon people overran by 568m connected the day," Naylor said.
"We connection our sincerest apologies for this mistake, which was lone spotted erstwhile participants were connected the course, and erstwhile an amendment was not possible," helium added.
Naylor said finishers volition beryllium fixed much accusation astir their times, and the people magnitude would beryllium adjusted for results and qualifying times.
Sunday's marathon isn't the archetypal contention to diagnostic an accidental region adjustment.
In September 2019, the organizers of the Great North 5K successful Newcastle, northeast England, apologized aft officials directed runners the incorrect way, shaving astir 300 meters (984 feet) disconnected the expected distance.
"We're truly sorry, and we're looking into what happened," Great Run, which organizes the Great North 5K, the Great North Run and galore different events successful the UK, posted connected Facebook astatine the time.
"We anticipation it didn't instrumentality take distant from your enjoyment of the time and we'll beryllium successful interaction with each runners directly."
And successful May 2019, a Chinese marathon official was banned for a twelvemonth aft helium redirected an elite runner distant from the decorativeness line, successful a mistake that astir changed the result of the race.
Kenyan runner Biegon Andrew Kiplangat was starring the battalion successful the Qingdao Marathon, and had entered the last 300-meter sprint erstwhile the usher car helium was pursuing exited the track.
Despite his contention being lone meters down him, Kiplangat followed the car disconnected the track. Event organizers directed him backmost connected course, and Kiplangat managed to triumph with a clip of 2 hours, 22 minutes and 17 seconds contempt the diversion.
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