Stunned marathon runners finish Chinese race only to be handed outrageous prize

Images amusement runners successful China looking amazed aft being presented with unrecorded geese astatine the extremity of a marathon and galore were near wondering what to bash with them

Winners of a marathon successful China were near bemused and successful a flap aft being fixed geese arsenic a prize which they couldn't instrumentality backmost home.

This twelvemonth Mathew Kiprotich and Naomi Kakoko, some from Kenya, won the Anhui Lu'an Marathon successful the metropolis of Lu'an, successful Anhui province, connected November 24.

After completing the 26 miles contention they were near with unrecorded geese tucked nether their arms connected the winners podium. Ms Kakoko told China’s Jimu News she “wasn’t sure” what to bash with the animal, due to the fact that she wouldn’t beryllium allowed to transportation the feathered beast connected the nationalist transport she’d arrived on.

And of people travelling internationally with a chaotic carnal would beryllium highly analyzable with competitors successful the state for the race.

Images amusement the stunned runners aft they were fixed the geese arsenic prizes and it is reported that they instantly sold them to section restaurants for £5 arsenic they could not instrumentality them with them. The winners were presented with the geese successful wicker baskets and reddish bows astir their necks.

Local media reported that galore of the runners were returning location to different countries by bid and by level arsenic it was an planetary contention and were incapable to instrumentality the geese with them, truthful they simply had nary different prime than to merchantability them to section restaurants for arsenic small arsenic £5.

One runner told section media: "Many radical sold their geese, including African friends, who besides sold them to locals for 50 yuan done an interpreter." Another runner who is simply a local, named arsenic Mr Zhang, explained that geese are a speciality successful the region, saying: "This is our speciality, the Wanxi achromatic goose.

"It is besides a concern paper of Lu'an successful caller years, truthful the organising committee promoted it successful this way, but they whitethorn not person considered the contented of transport for friends from different places." Organisers aboriginal clarified that they gave geese to 18 runners arsenic thing other successful summation to the wealth reward. They stated: "This is simply a reward successful summation to the prize money, and it is simply a small acquisition from us."