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The original 3rd place finisher in the women's 60-64 Age group has been disqualified. The runner's photos have been untagged from marathonfoto. But by looking at other runners' that finished at the same time, I was able to grab this...

Richard Perza cheated his way to a finish for the 5th consecutive year in Cleveland.This time he won his division after finishing 3rd, 2nd, and 6th in the prior 3 years in Cleveland.He was disqualified after I reported his...

More information has come to light in regards to Alexander Schwarz, the German runner that allegedly took the train en route to a 2:59:28 Boston Marathon finish. I received an email last Tuesday from someone that spotted him on...

By now, nearly everyone has heard about the letsrun challenge to Mike Rossi.The Johnson brothers (Brojos) wrote an extremely compelling article summarizing the evidence supporting that Mike Rossi did not actually run the 2014 Lehigh Valley Marathon. Lehigh Valley Got...

On May 24, I posted two articles detailing detailing the male and female record holders for most marathons in a calendar year. https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2016/05/examination-of-world-record-marathoners.html https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2016/05/world-record-marathoners-part-2-larry.html There are multiple questions regarding both Parvaneh's and Larry's results that were detailed in the articles above. Many...

Ryan Lee has finally and officially been cleared of cheating in the London Marathon. Below is a summary of the entire ordeal. On April 24th Ryan Lee ran his first marathon - The London Marathon. On May 11th it was reported...

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...

  Photo taken approximately 1-1/2 miles from the finish The initial 2nd place finisher of the Ft. Lauderdale A1A Half Marathon was disqualified Sunday night. She cut the course. Splits: 10K - 44:22 13.1  - 1:21:46 These results would equate to a 7:09 minute/mile pace...

I've been back and forth on the disqualification of Ryan Lee.See below for the link to the article I wrote yesterday. Initially it seemed the video evidence was confirmation that Ryan Lee cut the course. Based on the timing...

If you search on marathonguide.com's bulletin boards  or Craigslist, you see a variety of posts from people looking to buy and sell race entries. For some races, like The Pittsburgh Marathon, transfers are allowed.  For most others, like Boston,...