- All finishers of the Boston Marathon are supposed to receive a medal at the finish line.
- But some runners that finished after around 5:15 p.m. did not receive one.
- The Boston Athletic Association (BAA) confirmed this, and has promised that those who did not get a medal will be provided one “as quickly as possible.”
For many runners, one of the best parts of finishing a marathon is getting that medal at the end of the race—and then showing it off the rest of day around town, out to eat, or back at the hotel.
But at Monday’s Boston Marathon, a number of finishers did not receive their medal at the finish on Boylston Street. The medals ran out around 5:15 p.m. on Monday.
The BAA confirmed in a statement that some of the race’s 30,000 finishers did not get a medal.
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“The BAA is aware that some finishers after approximately 5:15 p.m. did not receive a finisher medallion,” the statement reads. “We have begun to reach out to affected athletes, and will ensure medals are provided to finishers as quickly as possible. The BAA congratulates all finishers of this year’s race.”
According to WCVB, runners will have to wait “several days or weeks” to receive their medals, which will be mailed to finishers.
Dan is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and before coming to Runner’s World and Bicycling was an editor at MileSplit. He competed in cross country and track and field collegiately at DeSales University.
