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title: "Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon hands out finishers’ medals with glaring typo"
type: "News"
locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/272360186.md"
description: "The Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon faced backlash after 26,000 finishers received medals with a typo, spelling \"marathon\" as \"marathan.\" The organizers, Chinese Taipei Road Running Association, announced they would reprint the medals and send corrected versions free of charge due to a production oversight. Affected runners must register by January 18. The marathon attracted 26,000 participants, with Hong Weiqi winning the men's race and Kana Numata winning the women's race."
datetime: "2026-01-13T04:45:59.000Z"
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# Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon hands out finishers’ medals with glaring typo

Ahead of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon this weekend, attention turned to its sister event, the Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon, after 26,000 finishers spotted a glaring typo on their medals on Sunday.\\nThe coveted medals for finishers spelled “marathon” as “marathan,” sparking derision and discussions online.\\n“My first full marathon came with a limited-edition souvenir,” one runner quipped.\\nOthers joked that the error meant that the medals were “turning into a collector’s item immediately”.\\nWhen asked by the Post about medal checks for this Sunday’s Hong Kong marathon, the race organiser offered a curt reply: “We do not comment on other races.”\\n\\nChinese Taipei Road Running Association, the Taipei Charity Marathon organisers, announced on Monday that they would reprint medals without errors and mail them free of charge to all affected finishers.\\n“Due to a production oversight, the text on this year’s medals contained errors,” said the statement. “We sincerely apologise to all runners impacted and are remaking correct versions for free replacement.”\\nThe affected runners need to register via a link by January 18.\\nThe charity marathon attracted 26,000 participants across the full marathon, half marathon, 11km and 3km distances.\\nHong Weiqi claimed the men’s full marathon title in 2 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds, while Japan’s Kana Numata dominated the women’s race in 2:40:15.\\n

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