Kazakhstan’s Yasmina Toxanbayeva celebrates ending in first place to win the gold within the Girls’s Marathon Race Stroll
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Kazakh race walker Yasmina Toxanbayeva’s Asian Video games gold medal has been annulled following disqualification from the ladies’s marathon occasion for sporting unsanctioned footwear.
Toxanbayeva crossed first within the occasion on Sunday in three hours, 22 minutes and 20 seconds, almost 4 minutes forward of China’s runner-up Danzengquzong, however the outcomes remained provisional pending a protest.
“Athletes should put on solely these footwear authorised and listed on a World Athletics platform. She was not sporting one, which is why we wrote to World Athletics,” a technical official stated on Monday.
“Cancelling the gold was their determination, which we conveyed to the athlete. The athlete has a proper to enchantment to the jury, and she or he has accomplished that.”
Toxanbayeva confirmed the annulment on social media.
“We fought till the tip,” she stated in an Instagram publish. “Thanks to all my super-heroes who fought with me to the very finish.”
Danzengquzong was upgraded to the gold, with compatriot Ma Li incomes silver forward of Japan’s bronze-winner Yukiko Umeno.
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