Women’s Sarasota marathon winner disqualified
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Bill Jempty | Thursday, March 6, 2008 |
Shadows of Rosie Ruiz. From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune-
SARASOTA — Cristina Noble, the first woman to cross the finish line at Sunday’s Sarasota Marathon, has been disqualified.
Race officials say she missed electronic checkpoints at mile 17 and 18 of the Sarasota race. Course monitors confirmed that she did not run a mile of the marathon on Ken Thompson Parkway.
The official women’s winner of the 2008 ABC-7 Sarasota Marathon is now Madeleine Zolfo, 43, of Treasure Island. She learned the news Monday night.
Madeleine Zolfo finished three minutes behind Sunday’s winner, but was named the winner Monday.
“It’s kind of a bittersweet phone call to get,” Zolfo said. “You know, to win because someone else got disqualified.”
Zolfo said the course was clearly marked on City Island, but she doesn’t know what happened with Noble.
Race officials didn’t elaborate. Noble is supposed to be a gifted runner with a similar time in last year’s Detroit marathon. Without her side of the story we can only guess what happened in Sarasota.
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