{"id":259269,"date":"2026-08-23T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/the-sydney-marathon-medal-error-that-went-viral-athletics-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:27:42","slug":"the-sydney-marathon-medal-error-that-went-viral-athletics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/the-sydney-marathon-medal-error-that-went-viral-athletics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sydney Marathon Medal Error That Went Viral &#8211; Athletics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Next Sunday, 35,000 runners will participate in the <strong>Sydney Marathon<\/strong>, already confirmed as one of the Majors. They will be greeted at the finish with the coveted <strong>finisher medal<\/strong> that reflects the most iconic places they will pass during the <strong>42.195 kilometers<\/strong>. All of them except one. And it\u2019s that a mix-up with one of them has turned the medal into a viral sensation before the race.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a mix-up between the Allianz Arena, the football stadium where Bayern Munich plays, and the Allianz Stadium in Moore Park in Sydney, which has a very different look. The organizers acknowledged the error with a touch of humor. <strong>\u00abWe have slipped in a touch too international on the back of the finishers\u2019 medal, with an incorrect depiction of the stadium\u00bb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-mainarticle__fig\"><picture class=\"c-mainarticle__picture\">  <\/picture>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.co.ke\/the-sydney-marathon-medal-error-that-went-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Sunday, 35,000 runners will participate in the Sydney Marathon, already confirmed as one of the Majors. They will be greeted at the finish with the coveted finisher medal that reflects the most iconic places they will pass during the 42.195 kilometers. All of them except one. And it\u2019s that a mix-up with one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}