I am going call this kind of runner who overtakes a runner after the finish line while all the runner are lined up to give their race number tags to the finish line marshalls. These tags stapled on the race number are collected after the finish line and they are used to identify the runner that corresponds to the order of finish as registered in the time counter machine. The time counter machine is being activated by a person at the finish line once a runner crosses the finish line and it only registers the order of finish of a runner and his/her time.

A runner who finished and crossed the finish line behind a runner on my back “leap frogged” us and gave his race number tag ahead of me and the other runner on my back to the marshalls. I immediately complained to the marshalls that the guy overtook us while we were already on line to give our race tags! He instructed the other ladies collecting the tags to change the order of the “leap frog” runner and be placed behind our tags. However, when I saw the official results of the GIG 10K Run, I found out that the “leap frogger” got my finish time! He finished # 57 with a time of 46:46 minutes while I finished # 58 with a time of 46:48 minutes. My watch registered 46:45.9 minutes when I crossed the finished the line.  

The picture on the left shows me and a runner on my back few meters away from the finish line. And then suddenly after passing the finish line, the “guy” infront of me on the right picture “leap frogged” us to give his race number tag to the marshalls ahead of us!

To the “leap frogger”, who ever you are, you are the worst “cheater” I’ve ever seen in running! 

Another story of a “cheater” during the GIG 10K Run on my next post.