Template:Did you know nominations/2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 08:24, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial

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... that every competitor at the 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial received a commemorative bonsai tree? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that in 2021, a British Olympic marathon qualifying event was held for the first time in over 40 years? Source: [2] "It is the first time for 40 years that a British Olympic marathon trial has been staged as a standalone race in a similar style to the US Olympic trials. The last one was Milton Keynes in 1980 and since then the London Marathon itself has acted as the trial event."

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Women's London Championship

Created by Joseph2302 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:36, 26 March 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Just a question on whether Race Timing Solutions is a reliable source. Surely there's a better (and perhaps official) source for race results.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done yet.
Overall: Looks fairly good, but I need clarification on the sources for the race results. Greatly prefer ALT0 over ALT1 for broad reader interest. Sounder Bruce 06:44, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

SounderBruce With regards to the results source, they are the semi-official results, let me try and explain. The race was run by Richmond Run Fest on behalf of British Athletics, and so the British Athletics site directs people to the Richmond Run Fest site for full results: [3]. The results are available here but they give the same URL for each result, and only give top 10 finishers. But if you go to "Gender Results" tab and click Top 100, the site takes you to the Race Timing Solutions website, where each event has a different URL. So it looks like Race Timing Solutions is the timing system being used by the race organisers Richmond Run Fest - I could link to the Richmond Run Fest site, but then users would have to click between the tabs to find the result by event and gender, and can only see top 10 finishers (there were 12 finishers in men's marathon event). Hope that makes sense, and let me know which you prefer. And I'll aim to do QPQ today- wasn't expecting it to get reviewed so quickly. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:58, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
And QPQ done: Template:Did you know nominations/Women's London Championship. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:01, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

@Joseph2302: You'll want to link the Richmond website then in the |via=Richmond Runfest parameter. Sounder Bruce 06:06, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

SounderBruce Done, and I explained in the text that Richmond Runfest ran the event. Is there anything else that needs fixing/clarifying? Joseph2302 (talk) 08:45, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

That should do it. Thanks for making those changes. Sounder Bruce 20:52, 29 March 2021 (UTC)