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When Finishers of One of the Country’s Most Grueling Races Received Their Medals, They Noticed Something Just Wasn’t Right
June 23, 2015
Oops.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- The medals awarded to winners in last weekend's Ironman event in Syracuse are engraved with an outline of the Rochester skyline.
The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports that the medal's for Sunday's Ironman 70.3 Syracuse feature a scene that depicts an arched suspension bridge over the Genesee River, which runs through downtown Rochester. And the skyscrapers on the medal match those in Rochester.
Congrats you won Syrcause Iron Man! Oops, medal has Rochester's skyline on it @PostStandard https://t.co/OHnX76o11F pic.twitter.com/7KfhKrmnDF
— Lauren Stanforth (@TUcitydesk) June 22, 2015
A spokesman for the Ironman didn't have an immediate explanation for the error Monday.
The race started with a 1.2-mile swim in Jamesville Reservoir, then a 56-mile bike course that wound through Syracuse's Highland Forest and parts of Onondaga, Madison and Cortland counties. The event ended with 13.1-mile run in and out of Jamesville Beach County Park.
Rochester is 75 miles west of Syracuse.
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