Faced with the absence of a barrier, about a kilometer and a half from the finish, the 22-year-old Ugandan was misled by a vehicle which he followed on the wrong track for about 40 meters before making half turn.
"The people driving the motorbikes confused me. Then they told me to turn around and I still managed to reach the finish," he said.
This slight misstep may have cost him the Commonwealth Games record, held by Ian Thompson (2:09:12) since 1974, but Kiplangat still won the event in 2 hours 10 minutes and 55 seconds, with more than a minute and a half ahead of his runner-up, the Tanzanian Alphonce Simbu, bronze medalist of the London Worlds marathon in 2017.
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