Scottish ultra-marathon runner banned for 12 months after hitching a ride in a car during foot race: reports

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An ultra-marathon runner from Scotland has been banned from racing for a year by UK Athletics, after she hitched a ride in a car for a portion of a race back in April, according to reports.

Joasia Zakrzewski was disqualified from a 50-mile race April 7, in which she placed third, after officials discovered, after handing her a third-place trophy, that she had traveled 2.5 miles by car, the BBC reported.

Zakrzewski was competing in the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool 50-mile race, and data showed she traveled a mile of the race in just 1:40.

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Ultra-marathoner Joasia Zakrzewski (Kai-Otto Melau/Getty Images/File)

She told the BBC at the time that the entire situation was a "miscommunication," explaining that she was feeling pain in her leg when she accepted a ride from a friend.

She also said she intended to tell race officials at the next checkpoint that she was withdrawing from the race, but when she reached them, she decided to "carry on in a non-competitive way."

After crossing the finish line, she accepted the third-place medal instead of handing it back.

"I hold my hands up, I should have handed them back and not had pictures done, but I was feeling unwell and spaced out and not thinking clearly," she said at the time.

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Joasia Zakrzewski of Scotland learned her punishment this week after she allegedly rode in a car during a portion of a foot race. (Kai-Otto Melau/Getty Images/File)

Ultimately, a new third place winner was named.

Zakrzewski, a general