Russian Jersey Marathon winner to be stripped of title

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The winner of the 2016 Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon will be disqualified for being ineligible to compete.

The race on October 2 was won by Russian Aleksey Troshkin in a time of 2:18:28 – the third consecutive victory at the event for the 30-year-old who has a personal best of 2:16:40 from 2013 set in La Rochelle.

Under current IAAF competition rules Russian athletes are ineligible to compete in international competitions as a result of …

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