The Sunderland marathon, which was only finished by one runner after a course error, cost £76,000 a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Sunderland Echo report:

COUNCIL chiefs sanctioned paying out £76,000 for this year’s bungled Marathon of the North event, the Echo can reveal.

Race bosses have admitted thousands of runners fell short of completing the correct Marathon and Half Marathon routes in Sunderland after a marshalling error missed out 264metres – 0.16miles.

Runners not affiliated to a club paid £36 to enter the marathon.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.