Ethiopia's Derara Hurisa won the Vienna City Marathon on Sunday but was disqualified shortly after he was found to have breached shoe soles rule.
Hurisa crossed the line in a time of 2:09:22 but was disqualified since his shoe soles were five centimeters thicker.
The soles of road running shoes cannot be thicker than four centimeters.
"We also stressed in the technical meeting the rules about the shoes. Unfortunately, we had no other choice than disqualifying the athlete,"
"It's the first time something like this has happened. I'm pretty sure that from now on there will be some form of checks to avoid something like this to happen again in a major race."Race Co-ordinator Hannes Langen said.
Kenya's Leonard Langat who finished three seconds behind Hurisa was declared the winner of the race.
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