Brightside: Man wins marathon after leaders take wrong route
(KYMA, KECY/ CNN) - If there is one way to win a marathon, an American man would tell you just to follow the correct route.
That is how 28-year-old Tyler Pence won the Quad Cities marathon in Moline, Illinois.
The Quad City Times says Pence finished in first place after a race volunteer bicyclist diverted the two leaders of the race off of the course.
The two runners had a little more than halfway to go to make it to the finish line, but they were disqualified and that lead to pence's win.
Pence is the first American runner to win the race since 2001. He is the head track and cross country coach at the University of Illinois-Springfield.
