5th Place Boston Marathon Woman Wins $0

>> Because there are different rules for men and women running the race.

whoa, now that made me surprisingly angry

men would not need the elite start to claim the $15K ?

this is very wrong

give her Hassay's appearance fee or something

Did the 5th woman to cross the line win $0? No.

Clock time, not chip time, is everything in a race.

LOL at the tryhard feminist title.

Last time I checked road races never base prize money off chip time, for good reason.

gotta ask, what is that "good reason"?

did I miss something? she indeed went home with zero $ so YES

What if 2000 women were in the EWS, and it required 3:00 minutes to get all across the start line, who dictates who gets to toe the line and who starts at the back and is 3:00 in the hole? I think a chip time would be required or allow elbows and shoulder checks to sort things out.

nope the 5th place women did get the prize Dimercurio

Um, because runners competing for the top spots can't respond to runners starting 28 minutes aft? It's a race, not a time trial.

what if no one from the EWS finished the race and a age grouper crossed the line first , does that mean the record book would show no official winner? and the prize money rolls over to 2019? So the only way to have a official winner is if they receive prize money? Or what if only one "elite" women finished at 5:32, just walked it, does she get the official first place and the big bucks?

Can anyone tell me a bit more about Veronica Jackson?

Does she have to pay taxes on it?

So..... wrote:

Can anyone tell me a bit more about Veronica Jackson?

Her fathers last name is Jackson. She runs. She ran Boston this year. She was cold at the finish.

You're welcome.

Chichester did NOT come in 5th place. She should not be listed in the standings for the elite women because it is a different race. The BAA is partially to blame here for the controversy/confusion.

The article has a point, though. Women and men are not on an equal playing field here with respect to prize money.

IMO, a good solution would be to expand the women's elite field to include non-elite women with the top 50 qualifying times. That would virtually guarantee that a woman from the mass start would not finish with a top 15 time. Also, increase the time gap between the women's and elite/masses start so that the elite men aren't dodging a bunch more women at the finish. They should do that anyway, so that the top women don't finish when the men's race is typically breaking open.

Alternatively, just award any women that finish top 15 net the corresponding prize money (but do not list them in the top finishers list!). This is peanuts to the BAA.

gottaaskeinstein wrote:

gotta ask, what is that "good reason"?

KIp Litton

Elite women started, what, thirty minutes before the first wave of the masses?

On another day, the run might be run in hot conditions. Burning sunshine all the way for the elite women. Some welcome cloud cover for the last half hour for the masses.

Or maybe the wind, blowing in the direction of the finish line gets up in the thirty minutes after the elite finish.

Hardloper wrote:

LOL at the tryhard feminist title.

Last time I checked road races never base prize money off chip time, for good reason.

I hate when SJW pop off about things they don't know. Last time I remember was on the track and they misquoted Joanna Jozwik. And declared Wambui and Niyonsaba as non hyperandrogenism.

This article demonstrates what is wrong with so-called "progressivism."

The Elite Women's Start is done to promote women's athletics. Progressives twist it into an attack on women.

Frank Marshall Davis wrote:

This article demonstrates what is wrong with so-called "progressivism."

The Elite Women's Start is done to promote women's athletics. Progressives twist it into an attack on women.

Yeah exactly. I mean, I think the BAA should just suck it up and pay her, but the rules 100% make sense and no, she was not the official 5th place finisher in the women's elite race. She was in her own separate race which didn't give prize money.

That Buzzfeed headline is clickbait bullshit. They make it sound like men and women aren't given equal prize money even though they are. If the BAA gave her prize money, then women would be getting significantly more money.

Frank Marshall Davis wrote:

This article demonstrates what is wrong with so-called "progressivism."

The Elite Women's Start is done to promote women's athletics. Progressives twist it into an attack on women.

Buzzfeed is sh!t

Misleading article wrote:

Did the 5th woman to cross the line win $0? No.

Clock time, not chip time, is everything in a race.

I believe that she did technically cross 5th in gun time; just a different gun. It's a strange situation to be sure. The big mistake made by BAA was combining the EWS results with the Wave 1 results. Of course the outcome wasn't expected, but by mixing people on the same leaderboard this situation was brought to the fore. IMO BAA should pay her and then fix its rankings going forward so this debate never has to happen again.