{"id":69965,"date":"2026-03-25T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/us-runners-led-off-course-in-chaotic-half-marathon-given-entry-to-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:00","slug":"us-runners-led-off-course-in-chaotic-half-marathon-given-entry-to-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/us-runners-led-off-course-in-chaotic-half-marathon-given-entry-to-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"US runners led off course in chaotic half-marathon given entry to world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Lead runners were led off course by guide vehicle<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>World Athletics gives runners special entry<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three runners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/01\/us-half-marathon-championship-ends-in-chaos-as-lead-runners-guided-in-wrong-direction\">who were led off course<\/a> in a race that served as a qualifier for the World Road Running Championships have been given entry into the upcoming competition.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica McClain, Emma Grace Hurley and Ednah Kurgat were leading the USA Track &amp; Field Half Marathon Championships in Atlanta earlier this month when the guide vehicle took the trio off course. Molly Born, who had been more than a minute behind the leaders, <a href=\"https:\/\/track.rtrt.me\/e\/ATC-PUBLIX-ATL-MARATHON-2026?fbclid=IwY2xjawIv1YBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYIDZm6zL1QyrCVI9j1raQ513xxo7-oPvc-7PZmWkIIEhxZskuoGCg6wLg_aem_ZGpgbyTitG6F9Pp1_g9MVw#\/leaderboard\/usatf-half-marathon-overall-women-gun-time-halfmarathon\/HALF-FINISH\">came through to win the race,<\/a> with Carrie Ellwood and Annie Rodenfels in second and third. McClain, Hurley and Kurgat finished in ninth, 12th and 13th respectively, around two minutes behind Born.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/25\/atlanta-half-marathon-guide-vehicle-runners-off-course\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead runners were led off course by guide vehicle World Athletics gives runners special entry Three runners who were led off course in a race that served as a qualifier for the World Road Running Championships have been given entry into the upcoming competition. Jessica McClain, Emma Grace Hurley and Ednah Kurgat were leading the &#8230; <a title=\"US runners led off course in chaotic half-marathon given entry to world championships\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/us-runners-led-off-course-in-chaotic-half-marathon-given-entry-to-world-championships\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US runners led off course in chaotic half-marathon given entry to world championships\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}