Victor Kiplangat took a wrong turn about a mile from the finish but still managed to give Uganda their first-ever Commonwealth Games marathon gold in Birmingham on Saturday.
The 22-year-old barely put a foot wrong until his moment of confusion but he regathered himself and timed 2hr 10min 55sec, coming home with a broad grin on his face.
“The people riding the motorcycles were con-fusing me,” he said. “They told me to turn back. But I still made it to the finish.” There were no such navigational problems for Australia’s Jessica Sten-son, who turned two successive bronze medals into gold at last in the women’s race.—APP
