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Re:Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place w... by glyxbaer on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:22AM (#20746676)
I find this a bit strange and maybe it's a cultural/US thing, but the races I have competed in (Germany) always had two trophies: overall male winner and overall female winner. Which would easily eliminate this issue. TIL that this is not the same everywhere.
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Re:Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place w... by ultrarunner on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:33AM (#20747427)
As I said upthread, it's just a poor choice by a race director. The way you mentioned is how we do it too. They could have chosen to give trophies to the overall winners, to the last place finisher, to the 4 median finishers, or any other silly combination, but they chose what they did and Runner's World wrote an article about it.
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