MarathonInvestigation

The Tokyo Marathon has notoriously strict cutoff times. It was reported b participants that 'hundreds of runners' were prevented from continuing the race after the 10 kilometer cutoff. Tokyo Marathon Cutoff Times - 2019 Runners Handbook

Bre Tiesi-Manziel gained unwanted notoriety last week after her claim of completing a sub two hour half marathon came under scrutiny. Timing data shows that for her time to be believed, she would have had to run the final 6.7 miles in...

Bre Tiesi Manziel and Khloe Yerae did not run the full 13.1 miles at The Diva Half Marathon. This is not debatable. Bre provided 'evidence' that is dubious. I have seen some floating the possibility that Bre and...

Bre Tiesi-Manziel and Khloe Terae (Chloe Thompson) claimed that they completed their Half Marathon debuts in under 2 hours each. Bre is the wife of former Heisman Trophy Winner and pro football bust Johnny Manziel. She is also a model and...

Last week I wrote about a Bib Mule at Surf City. I wrote that Jim was carrying his wife's bib on the way to a 3:30:00 finish at The Surf City Marathon. https://www.motivrunning.com/run-surf-city/event/legacy/ Jim admitted to...

On Saturday, this message appeared in a Facebook Group for Disney Princess Runners. This story had a very familiar ring to it. The most well known instance of bib stealing happened at Disneyland...

Two weeks ago, Valerie Reyes was featured in three separate articles on Marathon Investigation. Valerie was outed for running with forged bibs at numerous events. I originally estimated that she likely was responsible for faked entries worth at least One Thousand dollars....

Heather Lieberg won The Austin Marathon. She was leading the elite women very early on in the race. Despite this, she found herself engaged in an unexpected battle with Mary Akor. Mary is an elite runner, who faced a 2 year drug...

Scott Kummer was first accused of cheating in 2017 on the popular running site letsrun.com. The evidence presented was damning. He had no footpod data for any of his runs. This startling revelation was believed to be uncovered by Jane Benfer.

One thing that I look for whenever I have a complete set of results are runners with identical split times - or runners with no more than a 1 second variance at any timing mats. I usually just...