In a first at a global meet, an entire race field was disqualified at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain, on Friday.
In a 400m first-round heat, all five men were disqualified. One man was sent off for a false start, and the other four were disqualified after the race for running out of their lanes before the break for the inside, according to the IAAF.
At least one of the runners’ teams appealed, but it was denied.
In other events, Brit Katarina Johnson-Thompson at last earned her first senior global multi-event medal, a gold, in the pentathlon.