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- Updated: May 10, 2016
The course used for the Trafford 10k since 2009 has been found to be short by just over 100m, the Association of UK Course Measurers (AUKCM) has confirmed.
Following the 2016 event on March 13, which was won by Tom Lancashire with a chip time of 28:56 and Juliet Potter who clocked 33:50, the AUKCM was contacted with concerns that many GPS watches had recorded 6.1 miles for the one-lap route.
An investigation to remeasure the calibration baseline on Middlewood Way in Macclesfield, which had been used by the measurer in 2009 when the Trafford 10k was certified, plus the whole 10km course was undertaken.
An AUKCM statement read in part: “A shortfall in at least one other course which had been calibrated using Middlewood Way (Manchester Marathon, …
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