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Marine Corps Marathon – 6th Place Female Appears To Have Cut Course This Year...

Brandy currently shows as the 6th place woman in the unofficial Marine Corps Marathon Results. I pulled down the complete results the evening of the marathon. Many of the runners with missing splits have been removed from the results....

Charity Co-Founder Responds To Boston Bib Copying Article

Mark Porter, one of the men behind The Battle At The Bay Event, and the cancer charity that it supports, responded to my article regarding the copying and swapping of bibs.  I will first post and respond to his...

Ramon De La Rosa – Oakland Running Festival – Multiple Questionable Results

Runner Has Multiple Questionable Times - Oakland Running Festival/San Jose Rock 'N Roll 1/2 MarathonI started investigating this based on a comment posted on the blog through a reddit post on Mike Rossi.There's been discussion about somebody named Ramon...

Letter of Apology From Runner That Took Extra Boston Marathon Medal

This afternoon, I received an email from the runner that I wrote about late last week that took two medals at the finish. With his permission, I am posting his apology: I am the runner from the Boston Marathon who took...

Parvaneh Moayedi Claims Her 1001st Marathon Finish

I've previously written about Parvaneh Moayedi, and laid out the irrefutable evidence that she did not complete many of the marathons that she claims.Examination of World Record Marathoners Part 1 - Parvaneh Moayedi and I Ran MarathonsTime for Guinness...

Marathon Cheating Couple Disqualified from Surfer’s Point Marathon – Will be Removed From the...

Yesterday I updated an article about Jeffrey and Sheri Donnelly. They have cheated at multiple marathons in order to qualify for Boston in the past. They had a qualifying time at the 2015 Surfer's Point Marathon which they used...

Marathon Investigation – Weekly Wrap Up 5/12/17

Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Weekly Wrap Up.   New Supporter Announced         I am proud to announce that Sportstats is officially a supporter of MarathonInvestigation.com. For quite some time, we have had a great relationship. On a # of occasions...

Update: Vermont City Marathon 2013 and 2015 – 3 girls – 1 bib.

This is a follow up to the article I posted on May 27th. Vermont City Marathon 2013 and 2015 - 3 girls - 1 bib. The quick summary is that I noticed the missed splits from this runner's results, and checked...

Richard Perza – Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon, Akron Marathon, PF Chang’s RnR Arizona

Interesting case here. I was looking at this past weekend's marathons, and was particularly interested in the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon. Looking at the course map, it seems there are multiple opportunities to cut the course. I have no...

An Inside Look at The 2016 Boston Marathon Results Review

I've been wanting To Write This Post For Quite Some Time. Whenever there is an article or an interview posted about the Boston Marathon results review, I get emails and comments about runners worrying that they will get flagged. This...

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