Second Marathon Winner Disqualified For Using iPod During Race

Lombard, IL (AHN) – Officials disqualified the second women’s winner of the Lakefront Marathon after they discovered she used her iPod in one of the later stretches of the race.

Although two women beat her to the finish line Sunday, third-place Corina Canitz of Brookfield has been moved into the top spot, Kristine Hinrichs, race director, told the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

The original first-place winner, 23-year-old Marquette University student Cassie Peller, was disqualified soon after the race for accepting a water bottle from a friend outside of the designated water stations. This moved second-place-finisher Jennifer Goebel into the top spot, until her iPod use disqualified her as well.

Using the iPod violated USA Track and Field rules, which applied to elite runners in the Lakefront Marathon; runners competing for cash prizes or USATF championships cannot use any electronic devices.

Canitz told Milwaukee’s TMJ4 News that she will donate the cash prize to The Jenny Crain Make it Happen Fund. Crain was an elite marathoner who suffered a traumatic head injury when a car hit her while she was running.

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