Last-minute intervention helps deliver stranded Sunshine Coast Marathon Festival medals and merchandise
- A last-minute logistical scramble has ensured thousands of runners at a major Queensland marathon festival will receive their medals.
- A record number of more than 16,000 people will descend on the Sunshine Coast as the region hosts the event on Sunday.
- But participants received an email late on Wednesday informing them they might not get a medal for crossing the line.
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- A last-minute logistical scramble has ensured thousands of runners at a major Queensland marathon festival will receive their medals.
- A record number of more than 16,000 people will descend on the Sunshine Coast as the region hosts the event on Sunday.
- But participants received an email late on Wednesday informing them they might not get a medal for crossing the line.
Sources: ABC Australia