Overview
- Race organisers said officials ordered the participant to leave the route during the Jan 18 event and disqualified him for a rules violation.
- Videos shot by a fellow runner showed the man with an infant in a front carrier and a race bib pinned to the child’s windbreaker along the West Kowloon Highway.
- Official live-tracking data indicate he started at 6:25am in the first wave and reached about 15km in roughly two hours and 20 minutes before being stopped.
- The Hong Kong, China Association of Athletics Affiliates later confirmed the runner has been banned from future Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon events.
- The incident fueled public criticism and prompted expert warnings about infant injury risk from jostling, while raising questions about how the pair passed checkpoints before intervention.