Another female runner robbed of record by dude

A transgender athlete easily beat a woman’s running record for a 5K race recently, with the former record holder telling outlets she feels “robbed” and “cheated.”

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According to the Daily Mail, Deb Roberts, now 51 years old, set a 5K race record for the 40-45 women’s category in 2018 with a time of 20 minutes and six seconds. Previous records were just seconds behind, at 20 minutes 10 seconds and 20 minutes 18 seconds.

However, transgender athlete Sian Longthorpe smashed the record by more than a minute with a time of 18 minutes and 53 seconds in Porthcawl, South Wales, in the United Kingdom.

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